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RURAL NEW YORK 



continent with reference to the general course of the 

 cyclonic areas that pass across the country in more 

 or less regular succession. As a result of these con- 

 ditions, it exhibits the three main types of climate: 

 (a) the marine on Long Island and the southeast 



Fig. 10. Showing the climatological districts in the State. 



point of the State; (b) the continental on the south- 

 ern New York plateau; and (c) mountainous climate, 

 especially well developed in the Adirondacks. 



On the basis of the direction of wind movement 

 and temperature and distribution of the precipitation, 

 the State may be subdivided into ten divisions, the 



