NIAGARA FALLS TO NEW YORK CITY. 



ITINERARY. 



By Chas. D. Walcott. 



Station. 



Niagara Falls 



Buffalo 



Bergen 



Genesee Junction 



Rochester 



Newark 



Port Byron 



Syracuse 



Canaetota 



I'tica 



Frankfort 



Little Falls 



South Schenectady 

 Coeymana Junc- 

 tion 



CatsUill 



Distance. 





i 





V 









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Fi 



- 



o 











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M 



Eleva- 

 tion . 



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o 



22 

 74 

 87 

 91 

 121 

 147 

 172 

 193 

 219 

 229 

 241 

 298 



322 

 340 





 35 

 119 

 140 

 146 

 195 

 236 

 277 

 311 

 352 

 369 

 389 

 480 



518 



547 



674 



624 

 575 

 524 

 494 

 436 

 403 

 400 

 434 

 523 

 31111 



349 



180 

 97 



175 

 190 

 174 

 160 

 161 

 133 

 123 

 122 

 132 

 159 

 121 



Popula- 

 tion. 



266, 664 



Station. 



Distance. 



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u 





- 









■~ 





= 









- 





9 



1 £ 



^ 



Eleva- 

 tion. 



- 



133, 896 



Kingston 362 



Milton 883 



Xewburg 80 I 



Cornwall j 398 



West Point ! 403 



583 185 

 616 1" 

 034 

 640 

 649 



88, 143 

 44,007 



Ft. Montgomery, -ins 667 



Stony Point 416 I 669 



\V,st Xvack 426 I 686 



106 



55 

 30 



Tappan 432 



Bergenflelds 439 



Huckcnsaok 443 



Wcchawken 451 



New Vork (,'it\ . 

 (loot of Jay 

 street) 



(in;. 

 706 



718 



726 



8 ! 



Popula- 

 tion. 



21. 261 



23. 0S7 



1,616,801 



This day's journey is over a region classical in the annals of the 

 development of North American geology. It was along this line that 

 Hall, Emmons, Vauuxen, Mather, and Conrad conducted their investi- 

 gations, the results of which are published in the first four volumes of 

 the geology of New York and in the annual reports which preceded 

 them. The nomenclature established by them, on the basis of stratig- 

 raphy and paleontology, became a part of American geologic science 

 that was extended from State to State by subsequent surveys. 



From Niagara Falls to the valley of the Hudson at Schenectady 

 there are no marked topographic features; the country is undulating, 

 and the route crosses the slightly southward dipping rocks of Lower 

 Devonian, Silurian, and Lower Silurian (Ordovician) age. They are 

 for the most part subjacent to heavy deposits of drift, although numer- 

 ous fine sections are shown in the various streams that flow in the north 

 and south drainage lines across which the train passes. 



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