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The Adirondack park. The Adirondack park is situated within 

 the Forest preserve. It is defined as : 



Lands now owned or hereafter acquired by the State within 

 the county of Hamilton ; the towns of Newconib, Minerva, Schroon, 

 North Hudson, Keene, North Elba, Saint Arinand and Wilming- 

 ton, in the county of Essex; the towns of Harrietstown, Santa 

 Clara, Altamont, Waverly and Brighton in the county of Franklin ; 

 the town of Wilmurt in the counts- of Herkimer; the towns of 

 Hopkington, Colton, Clifton and Fine, in the county of St Law- 

 rence; the towns of Johnsburgh, Stony Creek and Thurman, and 

 the islands in Lake George, in the county of Warren 

 shall constitute the Adirondack park. Such park shall be forever 

 reserved, maintained and cared for as ground open for the free use 

 of all the people for their health and pleasure and as forest lands, 

 necessary to the preservation of the headwaters of the chief rivers 

 of the State, and a future timber supply; and shall remain part 

 of the Forest preserve. 1 



From the foregoing it may be seen that the Forest preserve is 

 much more extensive than the Adirondack park. The Adirondack 

 park, as shown on the accompanying map, includes the whole of 

 Hamilton, and parts of Warren, Herkimer, St Lawrence, Franklin 

 and Essex counties, and includes 2,807,700 acres (4387 square 

 miles), or about one-eleventh of the land area of the State. In 

 1893 the lands within the Adirondack park were classified, lot by 

 lot, with the following result : 





Acres 



Square miles 



Primeval forest 



1,575,483 



2,461 



.7 





1,027,955 



1,606 



.2 



Denuded 



50,050 



78, 



.2 



Burned 



13,430 



21 



.0 



Waste 



18,526 



28, 



.9 



Water 



57,104 



89, 



.2 





495 



0, 



,8 





64,717 



101. 



1 



Total 



2,807,760 



4,387. 



1 



^hap. 332, laws of 1893. 



