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to any city. Complete electric lighting 

 plants, extensive waterworks , interurban 

 electric and steam railways, and many 

 other appurtenances of civilization are 

 now conspicuous features of the land- 

 scape. 



These changes are shown on the new 

 map by a careful and accurate represen- 

 tation of every detail that is of sufficient 

 size to receive recognition on a map 

 drawn to a scale of 2^ inches to the 

 mile, as this one is. So numerous have 

 been the changes in this area during the 

 last ten years that the two maps are 

 hardly recognized as representative of 

 the same area. Almost every cultural 

 feature has been replaced by an improve- 

 ment, and in places the shapes of the 

 hills themselves have been altered. This 

 is very apparent to any one who stands 

 on one of the higher streets in Cripple 

 Creek and observes the slopes of Gold 

 Hill. Immense numbers of mine dumps 

 and surface workings have destroyed the 

 original contour of the mountain and 

 given it an altogether different outline. 



THE LONG LAKE QUADRANGLE, NEW 

 YORK 



Forest and lake are the most charac- 

 teristic features of this area. The merest 

 glance at the map shows that here the 

 sportsman may realize his ideals and the 

 lover of nature may rest content. 



THE ST REGIS QUADRANGLE, NEW 

 YORK 



This is the most interesting and varied 

 part of the country so far mapped in the 

 Adirondack Mountains. The most char- 

 acteristic feature of this quadrangle is 

 the large number of ponds and lakes 

 which it contains. There are nearly 200 

 of them. Many have no visible inlets 

 or outlets and are separated by small 

 terminal moraines from other ponds, 

 which are only two or three feet higher 

 or lower. Some of them are so con- 

 nected as to furnish an unrivaled water- 

 way through the woods. 



The control on this quadrangle was 

 furnished by Messrs E. L. McNair and 

 George H. Guerdrum, and the topog- 

 raphy was done in cooperation with the 

 state of New York under the supervis- 

 ion of Mr Glenn S. Smith. 



THE ROGERSVILLE QUADRANGLE, 

 PENNSYLVANIA 



About two- thirds of the area embraced 

 in this map is used as farming or grazing 

 land. The soil washed down by rain 

 from the hilltops makes the farms in the 

 valleys very rich. The hilltops them- 

 selves are used mostly as pasture land. 

 Large numbers of sheep and cattle are 

 exported every year from this region. 



Considerable tracts in this area are 

 covered with timber, but it is all a sec- 

 ond growth of chestnut and oak and has 

 no commercial value. 



The whole area is underlain by the 

 Pittsburg vein of coal. A low grade of 

 coal outcrops around Durbin and Crab- 

 tree and is used only for local consump- 

 tion. 



Natural-gas wells are found all over 

 the area and natural gas is the favorite 

 fuel of the people in this region. 



The triangulation for this map is the 

 work of Mr Sledge Tatum. The topo- 

 graphic work was done by Messrs R. D. 

 Cummin and E. G. Hamilton, under the 

 direction of Mr Frank Sutton. 



THE DENTON QUADRANGLE, MARY- 

 LAND 



It embraces parts of Talbot, Queen 

 Anne, and Caroline counties. If not 

 literally a land of milk and honey, it is 

 certainly one of peaches and tomatoes. 

 It is one of the finest farming sections 

 in the United States for small fruits and 

 vegetables. 



The farms in this part of Maryland 

 are unusually large and well cared for. 

 The climate is delightful, the soil fer- 

 tile. Even where there is sand it is 

 usually a sandy loam rather than just 

 unqualified sand. 



