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instruments. [ take the liberty of. strongly recommending that this 
should be done. Meredith will be the highest station in the state, and, 
with Pompey, the most advantageous for ascertaining the course of the 
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The western plateau being less settled, the stations are less in num- 
ber. Three only are situated on the high terrace in the south: E]mi- 
ra, Alfred Academy, and Jamestown. It were desirable to add 
others in the middie part, for instance on the heights of Springville, 
and at Geneseo in the valley of same na 
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feet above the ocean, to a narrow strip along its banks ; -but from the 
eastern extremity of this lake, it becomes a broad and fertile plain, ele- 
vated from 400 to 600 feet above tide water, and 150 to 300 feet above 
e the ocean; and fariher east by gentle slopes. It is in this region 
that the meterological influence of the lakes is more particularly felt. 
Seven stations belong to it. Fredonia and Buffalo on Lake Erie, 
hester, Geneva College, : 
and Mexico near Lake Ontario. A station was established at Lewis- 
ton on the Niagara, near the lake; -but the Academy haying been bro- 
ken up, the station has been discontinued after nine months existence. 
(5.) The northern region is a large tract of country isolated all around 
by the valleys of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence,, of Lake Cham- 
Plain and the Hudson and of the Mohawk. 
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feet above the ocean; they intercept numerous valleys, 
partly filled by a great number of lakes, and give rise to the sources 
of the Hudson and of various other streams. The 
high table-land, much more regular and less in ! 
of the Mohawk. One great feature only is to be remarked, that is the 
large and deep valley of the Black river, the flat bottom of which is 
to fill up. in p 
