ELEVATIONS IN FLORIDA. 
HERMAN GUNTER 
The following list of elevations in Florida is a revision of a 
list published in the Fifth Annual Report of the Florida Geologi¬ 
cal Survey, pages 81-101, 1913, by E. H. Sellards. The present 
list, however, is very much enlarged mainly by the addition of the 
results of spirit leveling in Florida by the United States Geological 
Survey and by the addition of elevations as determined by the 
various railroads since the former list was published. 
The elevations from the railroad surveys are either taken 
direct from the profiles, or given as submitted to the Florida Geo¬ 
logical Survey through the courtesy of the Chief Engineer of the 
different railroads, or as published in the 1913 list as taken from 
the Dictionary of Altitudes, Bulletin 274, United States Geological 
Survey. The precise levels which have been determined by the 
United States Geological Survey and by the United States Coast 
and Geodetic Survey were obtained from Bulletin 516 of the United 
States Geological Survey and through correspondence with the 
Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 
Washington, D. C. The levels made by the United States Army 
Engineers are obtained from Preliminary Survey for a Ship Canal 
from the St. .Marys River to the Gulf of Mexico, made in 1879; 
Survey of the St. Johns River to Charlotte Harbor, by way of Lake 
Tohopekaliga, for purpose of steamboat communication, Appendix 
J, Annual Report of Chief of Engineers, 1882; Survey of the 
Kissimmee River, Florida, and connecting lakes and canals flow¬ 
ing into 1 Lake Okeechobee, thence down the Caloosahatchee 
River to the Gulf of Mexico 1899 ; and two levels on the Apala¬ 
chicola River from correspondence with the Superintendent of 
the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. The levels by the 
State Drainage Commission are from a map of the Everglades 
district issued in 1913. 
The abbreviations used in giving the authority for the eleva¬ 
tions are as follows: U. S. G. S. (United States Geological Sur¬ 
vey) ; U. S. C. & G. S. (United States Coast and Geodetic Sur- 
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