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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Normans 
  kill. 
  This 
  stream 
  enters 
  the 
  Hudson 
  river 
  at 
  Ken- 
  

   wood, 
  a 
  suburb 
  of 
  Albany. 
  It 
  drains 
  a 
  narrow 
  area 
  of 
  168 
  square 
  

   miles, 
  lying 
  between 
  the 
  lower 
  Mohawk 
  catchment 
  and 
  the 
  

   northern 
  drainage 
  slope 
  of 
  the 
  Helderberg 
  mountains. 
  It 
  rises 
  

   in 
  Schenectady 
  county, 
  about 
  fifteen 
  miles 
  a 
  little 
  south 
  of 
  west 
  of 
  

   the. 
  city 
  of 
  Schenectady. 
  The 
  headwaters 
  are 
  at 
  an 
  elevation 
  of 
  

   700 
  to 
  800 
  feet 
  above 
  tide. 
  At 
  French 
  Mills 
  the 
  stream 
  is 
  200 
  

   feet 
  above 
  tidewater. 
  The 
  catchment 
  area 
  at 
  French 
  Mills 
  is 
  

   111 
  square 
  miles 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  stream 
  168 
  square 
  

   miles. 
  

  

  Roeliff 
  Jansen 
  kill. 
  This 
  stream 
  flows 
  into 
  the 
  Hudson 
  river 
  

   from 
  the 
  east 
  about 
  six 
  miles 
  south 
  of 
  Hudson. 
  It 
  rises 
  in 
  the 
  

   extreme 
  southwestern 
  part 
  of 
  Columbia 
  county 
  and 
  flows 
  first 
  

   southwest 
  to 
  about 
  the 
  village 
  of 
  Silvern'ail, 
  thence 
  a 
  little 
  north 
  

   of 
  west 
  to 
  Elizaville, 
  thence 
  northwest 
  to 
  its 
  mouth 
  in 
  the 
  Hud- 
  

   son 
  river. 
  The 
  headwaters 
  of 
  this 
  stream 
  have 
  been 
  proposed 
  as 
  

   a 
  water 
  supply 
  for 
  the 
  City 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  by 
  the 
  Water 
  Supply 
  

   Commission 
  of 
  1903. 
  The 
  catchment 
  above 
  Silvernail 
  dam 
  is 
  149 
  

   square 
  miles. 
  

  

  Claverack 
  creek. 
  This 
  stream 
  rises 
  in 
  the 
  western 
  part 
  of 
  

   Columbia 
  county 
  and 
  joins 
  the 
  Kinderhook 
  creek 
  at 
  Stockport, 
  

   a 
  few 
  miles 
  north 
  of 
  Hudson. 
  From 
  the 
  village 
  of 
  West 
  

   Taghkanick 
  it 
  flows 
  in 
  a 
  generally 
  northerly 
  direction 
  to 
  its 
  junc- 
  

   tion 
  with 
  Kinderhook 
  creek. 
  Above 
  West 
  Taghkanick, 
  the 
  

   Taghkanick 
  creek, 
  a 
  branch 
  of 
  the 
  Claverack, 
  flow® 
  southeasterly. 
  

   The 
  catchment 
  area 
  of 
  Claverack 
  creek 
  at 
  its 
  mouith 
  is 
  about 
  100 
  

   square 
  miles. 
  

  

  Kinderhook 
  creek. 
  This 
  stream 
  rise® 
  in 
  the 
  Hancock 
  mountains 
  

   in 
  western 
  Massachusetts. 
  It 
  flows 
  in 
  a 
  southwesterly 
  direction 
  

   across 
  Rensselaer 
  and 
  Columbia 
  counties, 
  emptying 
  into 
  the 
  

   Hudson 
  river 
  at 
  Stockport. 
  The 
  following 
  are 
  the 
  catchment 
  

   areas: 
  

  

  Square 
  miles 
  

  

  In 
  New 
  York 
  305 
  

  

  In 
  Massachusetts 
  29 
  

  

  Above 
  mouth 
  334 
  

  

  