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ENGELMANN—ELEVATION OF §8T. LOUIS. 663 
ELevation oF St. Louis asovE THE GuLtF or Mexico. 
By Georese Encetmann, M.D. 
physical geography of the Mississippi Valley, based on care- 
id down an abstract of 
his labors in his Report on the Hydrographical Basin of the 
Upper Mississippi, in 1841, published by order of the U. 8. 
Senate, after his death, in 1843. On pages 93-101 he gives a 
detailed account of the methods employed to obtain the de- 
sired results, and on pp. 122-125 is contained a most valuable 
table of geographical positions, distances, and altitudes. 
In this table, p. 1238, the altitude of St. Louis 1s stated to 
be 382 feet. The additional remark, “garden of the Cathe- 
water mark at St. Louis would have to be reduced by 59 feet 
(the elevation of the then garden of the 
water), which would bring it down to 3 
* This garden was situated on the west side of Second street, between 
Pua and Market oferta elevated about 24 feet above err cas = 
+t has been dug down, many years since, fe Neollet ‘nade many of his 
ings. In a summer-house in this garden 
observations, 
