PHYSICAL AND CLIMATIC SETTING 



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vations by successively lighter shades would to a very 

 large extent represent the distribution of population, 

 modified a little by the artificial means of communi- 

 cation. 



I [ >JW »tM flD VW cut 



\\'^ to to 40*0 tan 



Fig. 7. Proportion of land area in farms by counties in 

 1910. Average percentage for the entire State 72.2. 



CLIMATE OF NEW YORK STATE (See Fig. 10) 



The climate of Xew York exhibits wide variations 

 in all its elements. These result not only from the 

 size of the State but also from its elevation, its varia- 

 tion in surface features, its position with reference 

 to large bodies of water, the Atlantic Ocean and the 

 Great Lakes, and finally from its position on the 



