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daga river several miles farther west. Stony Creek village is 

 located a few miles northwest of the center of the quadrangle. 



Various parts of the Luzerne quadrangle attract summer visitors, 

 most of the hotels, boarding houses and cottages being situated in 

 and around Warrensburg, Luzerne and Stony Creek. A number of 

 summer camps are also located on the chain of lakes — Efner, 

 Jenny and Hunt — near the southern border of the area, and 

 around Fourth lake, a few miles north of Luzerne. 



The district represented by the Luzerne quadrangle is mostly 

 rough and mountainous. It is rather typical of the Adirondacks 

 in general, though it is more widely inhabited than usual. Farms 

 are located in nearly all parts of the quadrangle, but there are 

 various rough, forested, inountain areas of 5 to 15 square miles 

 in extent entirely devoid of farms or traveled roads. 



The lowest point of the quadrangle is less than 400 feet above sea 

 level where the Hudson river leaves the area at the southeast, while 

 the highest point is Baldhead mountain, whose altitude is 2920 

 feet, near the northwestern corner of the area. Moosehead moun- 

 tain, only a mile from Baldhead mountain, rises to 2860 feet, while 

 West (Hadley) mountain, in the middle western part of the quad- 

 rangle, rises to 2665 feet. In the northern half of the map area a 

 number of other summits lie at altitudes of 2000 feet or more, 

 among them being Black Spruce mountain, Bald mountain, an un- 

 named peak just north of Bald mountain and two unnamed moun- 

 tains along the western border of the quadrangle. Dozens of peaks, 

 scattered throughout the map area, range in altitude from 1500 to 

 20(X) feet. 



Distinct mountain ridges, miles in length, are notably less con- 

 spicuously developed than usual in the eastern half of the Adiron- 

 dack region. The nearest approaches to such ridges are West 

 (Hadley) mountain and its southern extension (9 miles), the high 

 ridge just west of Stewart brook (43^ miles), and Baldhead-Moose 

 mountain (3^ miles). 



The landscape of the whole map area is characterized by many 

 steep-sided, domelike hills and mountains. Most remarkable of all 

 is Potash mountain which is perhaps the most unique topographic 

 form of its kind in the State. For miles around it is known as the 

 " Potash kettle " because of its resemblance to an upturned potash 

 kettle. The accompanying picture (plate 2) gives but a poor con- 

 ception of this very steep domelike mountain because it fails to 

 show it in its landscape setting. The western face of the mountain 



