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Types of Aquatic Environment 



The rivers of America have been extensively studied 

 as to their hydrography, their navigabihty, their water- 

 power resources, and their habiHty to overflow with 

 consequent flood damage; but it is the conditions they 



the upper Cayuga basin. 



A Taughannock Creek, with a waterfall 211 feet high near its mouth- 

 B. faalmon Creek; C. FaU Creek with the Cornell University Biological Field 

 btation m the marsh at its mouth (views on this stream are shown in the initial 

 cuts on pages 24and82); D. CascadiUa Creek (view on pagess); £. Sixmile 

 Creek; /-Buttermilk Creek with Coys Glen opposite its mouth. (View on 

 page 77 ; of the Glen on page 25) ; G. Neguena Creek or the Inlet. The southern- 

 most of these streams rise in cold swamps, which drain southward also into 

 tnbutanes of the Susquehanna River. 



