TABLE OF HEIGHTS IN THE SECOND DISTRICT. 
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for the present. The valley of the Mohawk being comprehended in another district, will not 
require from me farther notice. 
1 shall complete this general view of the Second District, by a table of heights of some of its 
most important points. The heights have been obtained principally by means of the barome- 
"ter, a few by the theodolite, others by estimation or comparison ; conceiving that, even by the 
latter mode, in the absence of means for correct determination, is better than none, inasmuch 
as they are considered in all instances to be within one hundred feet of the truth. The ge¬ 
neral elevation of the country is thereby approximated, and we are able to form a better 
conception of its features. 
TABLE 
Of Heights of some of the most important points in the Second District, above tide. 
FEET. 
Lake Champlain,. 93 
Summit of the Champlain Canal,. 147 
Bulwagga Mountain,. 1,260 
East Moriah Four Corners,. 790 
Bald Peak, Westport,. 2,065 
Raven Hill, Elizabethtown,... 2,100 
Pass of the road summit between East and 
WestMoriah,. 1,546 
Pondsville, W. Moriah, in the Schroon Valley, 1,117 
Pass of the range to Johnson’s,. 1,375 
Di.x’s Peak,. 5,200 
Nipple Top,. 4,900 
Schroon Mountain,. ... 3,200 
Pass between Johnson’s and Adirondack,... 2,592 
Boreas River Bridge,. 2,026 
Boreas Mountain,. 3,726 
Hudson River Biddge,. 1,810 
North River Mountain,. 3,600 
Lake Sandford. 1,826 
Adirondack Iron Works, . 1,889 
Lake Henderson,. 1,936 
Lake Colden,. 2,851 
Avalanche Lake,. 2,900 
Highest source of the Hudson. 4,747 
Whiteface,. 4,900 
Lake Pleasant,. 1,500 
Tapper’s Lake, . 1,545 
Preston Ponds,. 1,700 
Cranberry Lake,. 1,570 
Height of the pass between the Schroon and 
Ausable,. 2,756 
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Mount McMartin. 5,000 
Mount McIntyre,. 5,183 
Mount Marcy,. 5,467 
Lower Saranac Lake,. 1,527 
Upper Saranac,. 1,567 
Stoney Ponds,. 1,536 
Foot of Racket Falls,. 1,538 
Long Lake,. ],575 
Forked Lake,. 1,704 
Racket above Forked Lake,. 26 
Racket Lake,. 1,731 
Eighth, Seventh and Sixth Lakes of the Ful¬ 
ton chain,. 1,720 
Fifth, Fourth, Third, Second and First of the 
same chain, (approx.). 1,645 
Lake Eckford of tlie Eckford chain,. 1,791 
Owl’s Head,. 2,706 
Owl’s Head above Long Lake,. 1,121 
Rich Lake,. 1,547 
Newcomb Lake,. 1,698 
Adirondack Pass,. 2,817 
Mount Seward... 5,100 
Mount Emmons,. 4,000 
Santanoni,. 5,000 
Taylor’s Mountain,. 4,500 
Summit of the northern route of the Cham¬ 
plain railroad,. 1,089 
Summit of the southern route of the Cham¬ 
plain railroad,. 1,737 
Ogdensburgh above Lake Champlain,. 143 
Wallface Mountain, . 1,000 
Geol. 2d Dist. 
