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Reeseville. Named for an early settler. Now a part of Scotia. 

 Rotterdam. Township and village. Named from Rotterdam, 



Holland, on account of lowlands. 

 Rynex Corners. Hamlet. Several members of Rynex family 



settled in this vicinity. 

 Sanders lake. Named for Sanders family. 

 Sandsea kill (formerly, Zantzee kill). Stream. " Z ant zee (better 



Zandzee, or else Santsee) is a familiar Dutch expression for 



sand desert." (A. J. F. van Laer) 

 Schenectady. County and city. Schagh-nac-taa-dagh, beyond the 



pine plains. 

 Scotia. Village. The ancient name of Scotland. The patentee, 



Sanders Leendertse Glen, was a Scotchman. 

 Town House Corners. Hamlet. The town's business was trans- 

 acted here. 

 Van Slycks island. Named for Jacques Van Slyck, 1662. 

 Verf kill. Stream. Dutch = paint creek. "Given in Burr's atlas 



of 1829 as Vert kill. This, however, has no significance as 



most of the Dutch names in that atlas are misspelled." (A. J. F. 



van Laer) 

 West Glenville. See Glenville. 



AREAL GEOLOGY 



In previous annual reports statements have been regularly given 

 in regard to the progress made in the completion of the great 

 geologic map of the State on the topographic base, scale of one 

 mile to one inch. It may be broadly stated that the quadrangles 

 which have been surveyed and fully reported upon, or upon which 

 work is under way, now number approximately 40, although this is 

 but a small percentage of the total number of quadrangles of the 

 State already surveyed by the United States Geological Survey, in 

 cooperation with the State Engineer and Surveyor. The execution 

 of the geological work is of a kind which must of necessity progress 

 very slowly and with every possible attention to detail. The pro- 

 gress of the work, however, has at no time been interrupted and 

 at the time of writing this report there are now in press final re- 

 ports on the following areas, accompanied by detailed geologic 

 maps on the topographic base : 



The Attica and Depew quadrangles 



Published together as a single map with descriptive text, by Mr Luther. 



