INDEX 



Abbe, Cleveland, 84, 135, 172. 



Adams, Campbell W., 741, 742. 



Adams, Edward D., 652, 653. 



Adirondack region, advantages com- 

 pared with Massachusetts, 555 ; 

 agricultural productions, 556 ; 

 area compared with Massachu- 

 setts, 555; frosts, 556; reservoirs 

 increase healthfulness, 557 ; use- 

 ful for three purposes, 556; valu- 

 able for State park, 555; chief 

 value, 46 ; views of visitors, 556. 



Aldridge, George W., 741, 742. 



Allen, Stephen, 647. 



Anchor ice, development in New 

 York streams, 839 ; remedy for, 

 840. 



Angell, James B., 294, 766. 

 Area, proportionate in Connecticut, 

 Massachusetts, Rhode Island 

 and New York, 562 ; relation to 

 population, 563; swamps in 

 New York, 864. 



Adirondack park, 175. 



Black lake, 242. 



Black river reservoir, 617. 



Catskill park, 177. 



Cazenovia lake, 760. 



Cazenovia reservoir, 351. 



Central New York lakes, 216. 



Connecticut, 560. 



Cranberry lake, 242, 531. 



Croton river water surface, 400. 



De Ruyter reservoir, 351. 



Erieville reservoir, 351. 



Great lakes, 293. 



Hemlock lake, 337. 



Jamesville reservoir, 352. 



Lake Champlain, 247. 



Lake George, 250, 643. 



Long Island, 292. 



Massachusetts, 560. 



Mohawk river flats, 479. 



Area (continued) 

 New York, 520, 560. 

 Niagara river, 294. 

 Raquette river, tributary lakes, 

 244. 



Rhode Island, 560. 



Schroon river reservoir, 637. 



Staten Island, 712. 



Wallkill reservoir, 695. 

 Astor, John Jacob, 652. 

 Auchincloss, W. S., 121. 



Babcock, S. E., 274, 476. 

 Bache, Alexander D., 84. 

 Ballston Springs Light and Power 

 Co., 663. 



Barge canal, advisory board, 820; 

 description as embodied in act au- 

 thorizing, 819; estimated cost, 

 811 ; estimated cost of Seneca- 

 Oneida route, 808; estimates by 

 different persons, 816; estimates 

 by State Engineer, 812, 813, 814; 

 original estimated cost, 801 ; 

 referendum, 818; relations to 

 Seneca river marsh, 808; as pro- 

 posed by Schenck, 814"; element of 

 time, 807; Seneca-Oneida route 

 overlooked, 807 ; survey by State 

 Engineer, 812 ; why continuously 

 descending was abandoned, 808- 

 10. 



Barnes, Howard T., 840. 

 Barrett, Alfred, 827. 

 Bates, David S., 825. 

 Bayner, Goldsborrow, 723. 

 Bazin, Henry, 329. 

 Bear, Samuel, 537. 

 Benedict, F. N., 621. 

 Binnie, Alexander R., 95, 139. 

 Bissell, William G., 858. 

 Black, Gov. Frank S., 741. 



