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Elevation (continued) 



Mohawk river and tributaries, 

 271, 478 ; at Rome, 478. 



Normanskill, 264. 



Oak creek, 287. 



Olean creek, 284. 



Oneida river, 215. 



Otselic river, 286. 



Owego creek, 286. 



Sacandaga river, 268. 



St Lawrence river, tributary 

 lakes, 322. 



Salmon river west, 219; reser- 

 voir, 612. 



Saranac lake, 248. 



Sauquoit creek headwaters, 280. 



Schoharie creek, 273. 



Schroon river, 269, 635 ; reservoir, 

 637. 



Seneca river, 215. 



Skaneateles lake, 347. 



Susquehanna river, 284. 



Tioga river, 285. 



Tioughnioga river, 286. 



Unadilla river, 286. 



Wallkill river, 695. 



Wappinger creek, 258. 

 Ellicott, Joseph, 728. 

 Ely, Harvey, 442. 

 Emery, Charles E., 526. 

 Empire State Power Co., 274, 483, 



663. 



Emslie, Peter, 647. 



Engineers, chief of, 313, 315. 



Engineers on Deep Waterways, 

 Board of, 311, 317, 357, 612. 



Engineers Society of Western New 

 York, 650. 



Erie canal, act authorizing construc- 

 tion, 595; adequate if restrictions 

 are removed, 769; Carpenter 

 brook feeder, 762 ; completed, 730 ; 

 continuously descending, 801 ; de- 

 scription of continuously descend- 

 ing, 803; cost of extending Syra- 

 cuse level, 806 ; cost per mile, 731 ; 

 original cost, 730; divided into 

 three divisions, 751 ; early com- 

 mission for exploring, 593; early 

 views as to transportation, 731, 



732 ; eastern division, 751 ; eastern 

 division water supply, 752; eleva- 

 tion and distances, Rome level, 

 804; enlargement of 1835, 733; 

 enlargement completed in 1862, 

 733; evaporation, loss of water, 

 825, 826, 827, 828, 829; filtration, 

 loss of water, 825, 826, 827, 828, 

 829 ; first mention, 727 ; value of 

 freight carried, 719; Genesee 

 feeder, relations, 579; Genesee 

 river temporary source of supply, 

 598 ; grain carried, 735 ; ground 

 broken, 729; growth and decline, 

 736 ; historical, 592 ; improvement 

 1895, 719, 738; leakage at struc- 

 tures, 826, 827 ; middle division, 

 description, 755 ; middle division, 

 water supply, 759; Nine Mile 

 creek feeder, 762 ; organization of 

 transportation companies, 737 ; 

 original dimensions, 729, 825 ; 

 original locks, 740 ; Owasco feeder, 

 762 ; proposed power canal along 

 line, 820 ; principal facts, 750 ; 

 Tutnam brook feeder, 762; quan- 

 tity of water to supply losses, 

 830 ; radical enlargement, 801 ; 

 regulator of railways, 734; rela- 

 tions of Eighteenmile creek, 671 ; 

 size of boat, 817 ; Skaneateles 

 feeder, 762; tolls, 720; tonnage, 

 early boats, 723; waterpower, 

 669 ; western division, descrip- 

 tion, 763 ; water supply. 764. 



Evans, M. E., 474. 



Evaporation, Champlain canal, 755 ; 

 Desplaines river, 304; exposed 

 tub on land at Rochester, 144; 

 floating tub at Rochester, 144; 

 Great lakes, 311, 315, 316; hard- 

 wood and softwood forests, 179; 

 how it varies, 137 ; mean annual 

 of several rivers, 124; Muskin- 

 gum river, 128; New York city. 

 141; Oswego river, 113; Oxford. 

 Eng., 341 ; same on Croton. Mus- 

 kingum and Genesee rivers, 109; 

 same on Genesee and Oswego 



