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THI-: 



AMERICAN 



JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &c 



GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, &c. 



Art.1. — JVoticc of Snake Hill and Saratoga Lake and its 

 Environs ; by Dr. J. H. Steele of Saratoga SpririLjs. 



TO PROFESSf)K SILLTMAN. 



Sir— 



I SEND yon, enclosed, a couple of drawings, taken 

 with a view to illustrate the very singular arrangement oi' 

 the rock formation which composes the strata of Snak<- 

 Hill, in this vicinity ; it is possible you may think them 

 entitled to a place in your Journal of Science if so, you 

 may accompany them with the following description of 

 the place which they are intended to represent. 



Saratoga lake is situated between the towns of Sarato- 

 ga, Saratoga Springs, Stillwater and Malta, in the county 

 of Saratoga and sfa^e of New- York ; its length is com- 

 puted at about nine miles and its breadth at from one to 

 three, it is from six to eight miles west from the Hudson 

 rix'er with which it communicates by the Fish Creek, and it 

 IS about four miles distant from the celebrated watering 

 place at Saratoga. 



The country, around the lake, rises gradually into ele- 

 vated ridges, which overlook it in all directions, produ- 

 cing the appearance of avast amphitheatre and presentin;; 

 a picturesque and romantic landscape, highly em!)ellished 

 by the efforts of cultivation and the ab-^des of 



Vnr.. IX. — No. 1. 1 



rural Ine. 



