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Reservoirs (continued) 

 Oriskany creek, 417. 

 Otisco lake, 762. 

 Popolepen creek, 707. 

 Raquette river, 608. 

 Roeliff Jansen kill, 573. 

 Rondout creek, 707. 

 Salmon river, 571, 612, 615, 616, 

 632. 



Schoharie creek,. 573, 702, 706. 



Schroon river, 572, G25, 631, 633, 

 635, 636, 637. 



Shawangunk creek, 707. 



Stormville, 708, 709. 



Wallkill river, 573, 698. 



Wappinger creek, 573. 

 Reynolds, 315. 

 Ries, Ileinrick, 701. 

 Risler's experiments, consumption 



of water, 35 ; depth of water per 



day, 36. 



River Improvement Commission. 

 874. 



Rivers, permanent commission to 

 control, 567 ; relation in Maine 

 of runoff to catchment, 126. 



Allegheny, description, 282 ; scope, 

 284 ; tributaries, 282. 



Ausable, length, 249; undeveloped 

 waterpowers, 250. 



Battenkill, fall, 266; water yield, 

 267. 



Beaver, storage at Stillwater, 223. 



Black, chief waterpower points, 

 226 ; commissioners authorized. 

 545 ; complete regulation, 425 ; 

 early history, 224; lakes at 

 headwaters. 222; length, 222; 

 topographical subdivisions, 463 ; 

 water yield, 502. 



Buffalo, what streams join to 

 form, 43!). 



Canisteo, slope, 490. 



Croton, aqueduct. 680 ; area of 

 water surface. 400 ; cost of 

 catchment, 186 ; cost of reforest- 

 ing eatchment, 187; direction of 

 flow. 256; early flow. (1(57 ; 

 storage, 380; tributaries, 256, 

 378; water surface exposed to 



evaporation, 191; water yield, 

 380. 



Delaware, description, 289; pos- 

 sibility of power development, 

 291 ; slope, 289. 



Desplaines, bight of ground 

 water, 301. 



East, value, 292. 



Genesee, annual flood a benefit, 

 451 ; deforested, 131 ; descrip- 

 tion, 210; early claimants for 

 damages at Rochester, 600 ; fall, 

 582 ; gagings of low water flow, 

 182; law of runoff, 446; low 

 water periods, 129; memorial 

 for damages on account of 

 canal, 599 ; precipitation highest 

 at source, 88, 89; proportion of 

 catchment in forest in 18J t 6, 

 183; public highway, 598; 

 rapid runoff of upper section, 

 450; regulation, 583; relation 

 of floods at Mt Morris and 

 Rochester, 449, 450; relation of 

 flows at Mt Morris and Roches- 

 ter, 452 ; relative catchment at 

 Mt Morris and Rochester, 453; 

 summer floods, 450; total horse- 

 power, 592 ; tributaries, 211 ; 

 weir measurements. 333, 334. 



Hoosic, fall, 265; reservoirs in 

 Massachusetts, 265. 



Hudson, cost and capacity of com- 

 pensating reservoirs, 641 ; cost 

 of drawing logs, 40 ; direction of 

 flow, 251; effect of fresh water 

 inflow, 640 ; forestation, 131 : 

 ice crop, 717; inland estuary, 

 251; length, 251; limit of de- 

 velopment, 504; logs marketed, 

 10 ; manufacture of bricks, 717 ; 

 navigable estuary, 31 ; power 

 development below Mechanic- 

 ville, 660; precipitation at 

 mouth higher than at source, 

 S7; slope, 468; storage of 

 lumbermen's dams, 504; titles 

 1<> lands derived from laws of 

 Holland, 531; tonnage, 718; 



