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istmglit, and all E. of it must 
have been a large island. 
3. The plains along Lake 
Ontario and the R. St. Law- 
rence, which average from 300 
to 500 feet also, but are of a 
different nat tire, mostly organic 
and limy. 
Those 3 level tracts divide, 
the other 3 high regions dr 
table-lands of the state. 
4. The Taconic or Taghka- 
hik region to the East, a range 
of mts running N. and S. but 
at the end turning W. to form 
the Manhattan highlands. 
5. The Alleghany Region, 
the largest of all, forming a 
table-land 360 miles wide in 
the S. of the state, and of or- 
ganic formation. 
6. The Saranac Region, to 
the North, primitive like the 
Taconic. L. Champlain sepa- 
rates them. It is the least 
known and explored, but also 
a table -land. 
Yet the whole state lies in 
the great Lake region of North 
America, extending from N. 
England to Alaska. It is fill- 
ed with lakes, of which 3 are 
very large, 20 of middle size, 
and the small ones are innume- 
rable, perhaps 2000. A single 
county that of Delaware has 
50, another 100. They extend 
even to Long Island. I will 
therefore begin with those 
flakes. 
The 3 Great Lakes. \ 
1. Lake Champlain lowest, 
19S feet above sea at head,, 90 at 
N. end. 
2 . Lake Ontario 232 feet, S. 
J. JU Erie highest 56,5 fee^S. 
The Lakes of the Alleghaof. 
1. L. Otsego, head of river 
Susquehanah 1200 feet, R. 
1193, H. 
2. L. Utsyantha small, head 
of Delaware 2000 feet, R. 
3. L. Chatauque, head of AI* 
leghany R. 1291 feet, H. 
4. The two lakes on Catskili 
mts. 2200, R. 
5. Fish Lake 1715 feet, Eh 
6. Cataraugus L. 1665, H. 
7. Reaver L. 1704, H. 
8. Lime L. 1623, H. 
9. Crooked L. 718, H. 
10. Canandaigua 668, H. 
11. Seneca L. 447, H. 455, C. 
12. Cayuga L. 387, H.415, C* 
13. Skeneateles .L. 752, H. 
These 5 last lakes are on the 
N. slope of the Alleghany, 
14. Tully Lakes, 1104, EL 
The lakes of the 3 low re- 
gions have no great elevation, 
except Oneida, 375, and Onon- 
dagua 361. Cross L. 370, EL 
Those of the Taconic region 
are all small. Those of the 
Saranac region are numberless 
but unmeasured, except Lake 
George 336 feet, P. those at the 
head of R. Saranac and Jluds^p 
are about 1000 feet. 
1 Region , Insular, highest hills. 
Hempstead hills L. Id. 319, P« 
Tompkins hill, S iftten Island 
307, P. 
f Cluster mt. Manhattan Id. 
539, P. 
2. Region of Hudson Valley, 
Capitol of Albany 130, H, 
J26, C. West Point 188, P. 
Kingston 188, EL 198, C* 
Warwasing 311, C. 
Bald Mountain 1030, 1^, 
HavArstraw mt 8 - 
