8 XEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



seasons hundreds of people go to the hotels or occupy cottages on 

 Long lake and Blue Mountain lake. 



Xo railroad enters the quadrangle, the nearest one being the 

 Raquette Lake Railroad branch of the Xew York Central (Adiron- 

 dack division) with terminus at Raquette Lake village about 8 

 miles from the western edge of the quadrangle. The traveled roads 

 are clearly shown on the accompanying map. It is of interest to 

 note that fully one-third of the area of the quadrangle (or about 

 J"^ square miles), including the northern-central and eastern-central 

 portions, is wholly without a used or well-defined road, or even 

 trail. 



The maximum range of altitudes within the map limits is from 

 a little less than 1560 feet, where Cedar river leaves the map on 

 the east, to 3759 feet at the summit of Blue mountain. Ranking 

 next in altitude are the two summits of Dun Brook mountain. 3580 

 and 3565 feet respectively, and Fishing Brook moiintain, 3550 feet. 

 The largest, high, rugged mountain group occupies some 35 or 40 

 square miles bounded by IMoimt Sabattis on the west and Fishing 

 Brook and Dun Brook mountains on the east. At least 15 points 

 within this group reach altitudes of 3000 feet or more. In the 

 southeast. Blue Ridge and the prominent ridge just south of it 

 show altitudes of over 3000 feet, the maximum figures being respec- 

 tively 3481 and 3350 feet. Along the central-southern border, two 

 points attain altitudes of about 3150 feet, these really being only oh 

 spurs of the Panther mountain mass of the northern part of the 

 Indian Lake quadrangle. As compared with the eastern and south- 

 eastern Adirondacks, there is no ver\- prevalent trend of mountain 

 masses, though there are some suggestions of the usual northeast- 

 southwest strike. 



An important division of drainage — that between the Raquette 

 and the Hudson rivers — passes across the quadrangle. Beginning 

 at the middle of the northern boundar\- of the quadrangle, this 

 watershed passes over Burnt mountain, Fishing Brook mountain, 

 the northern summit of Dun Brook mountain. Buck mountain. Blue 

 mountain, less than a mile south of Blue Mountain and Eagle lakes, 

 and along the crest of Blue Ridge to the western border of the area. 

 This watershed marks essentially the crest of the central portion of 

 what has been called the main axis of elevation of the Adirondack 

 region. Two valleys (below described), with greatest altitudes of 

 only about 1800 feet, cut completely across this axis within the 

 quadrangle and constitute two of the three or four lowest valleys 



