Glen Springs — Seneca Lake 



the country in 1779 ^^ its mission of vengeance 

 for the Cherry Valley and Wyoming massacres, 

 the soldiers found orchards and cultivated fields. 

 It was the duty of Sullivan's army to destroy the 

 Indian towns, cut down the orchards and burn 

 the grain, for the red warriors were a great men- 

 ace to the Continental Army. 



Many evidences of Indian occupation are still 

 to be found in the vicinity of Seneca Lake. A 

 short distance from the head of the lake are 

 Painted Rocks, covered with Indian inscriptions 

 and rising sheer from the water for over a hun- 

 dred feet. 



Seneca Lake 

 Climatology 



A remarkable feature of Seneca Lake is that 

 it has frozen over only twice in a century. At a 

 depth of 200 feet it maintains a uniform tempera- 

 ture of 7 degrees above freezing throughout the 



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year. The temperature of the water is so low that 

 evaporation is very slight, rendering the air un- 

 usually free from humidity, which accounts for 

 the absence of fogs, the clear skies and the cool- 

 ness and freshness of the surrounding atmos- 

 phere during the summer. United States Weath- 

 er Bureau records extending over a period ot 

 more than twenty years give the mean temper- 

 ature for midwinter as 23 degrees and for mid- 

 summer as 69.8 degrees. 



