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Normans kill. This stream enters the Hudson river at Ken- 

 wood, a suburb of Albany. It drains a narrow area of 168 square 

 miles, lying between the lower Mohawk catchment ami the 

 northern drainage slope of the Helderberg mountains. It rises 

 in Schenectady county, about fifteen miles a little south of west of 

 the. city of Schenectady. The headwaters are at an elevation of 

 700 to 800 feet above tide. At French Mills the stream is 200 

 feet above tidewater. The catchment area at French Mills is 

 ill square miles and at the mouth of the stream 168 square 

 miles. 



Rod iff Jansen kill. This stream Hows into the Hudson river 

 from the east about six miles south of Hudson. It rises in the 

 extreme southwestern part of Columbia county and flows first 

 southwest to about the village of Silvemail, thence a little north 

 of west to Elizaville,, thence northwest to its mouth in the Hud- 

 son river. The headwaters of this stream have been propose;! as 

 a water supply for the City of New York by the Water Supply 

 Commission of 1903. The catchment above Silvernail dam is 141) 

 square miles. 



Claverack creek. This stream rises in the western part of 

 Columbia county and joins the Kinderhook creek at Stockport, 

 a few miles north of Hudson. From the village of West 

 Taghkanick it flows in a generally northerly direction to its junc- 

 tion with Kinderhook creek. Above West Taghkanick, the 

 Taghkanick creek, a branch of the Claverack, flows southeastei ly. 

 The catchment area of Claverack creek at its mouth is aboui 100 

 square miles. 



Kinderhook creek. This stream rises in the Hancock mountains 

 in western Massachusetts. It flows in a southwesterly direction 

 across Rensselaer and Columbia counties, emptying into the 

 Hudson river at Stockport. The following are the catchmenl 

 areas : 



la New York 

 In Massachusel is 

 Above mouth . . . 



Square miles 



305 



334 



