Annual Report on the Progress of the Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Region of New York ...Weed, Parsons and Company, 1874 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
acres Adirondack Altitude above tide Ampersand angles angular measurements ascended assistant Att'd Ther August Ausable baggage Barom Barometer barometrical observations Beaver River Blue Mountain boat Bog river Burlington camp canal Coast Survey Computed by mean Corr'n Crown Point Det'd Ther determined distance DUDLEY OBSERVATORY Elizabethtown Essex feet above tide forest guides Haystack height Herkimer instruments Keene Flats labor Lake Champlain Lake Colden lands latitude light-house Long Lake Lost Lake lower station Mean of observations mean of Synchronous Mercurial miles Mount Colvin Mount Haystack MOUNT MACINTYRE Mount Marcy MOUNT SKYLIGHT MUD LAKE night Observations at Oswego pass patent peaks Port Henry portion Raquette reached reconnaissance map region Result of calculation rock Saranac Lake SEA LEVEL shore signal snow streams summit Synchronous Observations Temp temperature theodolite tide level timber tion topographical tract trapper trees triangulation trigonometrical Tupper's lake Verplanck Colvin wilderness
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עמוד 248 - CAPTAIN GENERAL AND GOVERNOR IN CHIEF IN AND OVER THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK and the territories depending thereon in America...
עמוד 243 - An act to amend chapter four hundred and ninety-nine of the Laws of nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled 'An act to authorize and direct the Commissioners of the Land Office of the State of New York to grant and convey to the city of New York...
עמוד 248 - Chitwood and his heirs and assigns forever, a certain tract of land lying and being in the County of...
עמוד 244 - ... a direct line to the north-westermost corner of the tracts granted to Oothoudt, thence westerly on a direct line to the mouth of Salmon River where it empties itself into Lake Ontario, thence north-easterly along the shore of said lake, and the river St. Lawrence...
עמוד 243 - Stockholm, to the eastermost corner of the latter; thence northwesterly along the line of said township of Stockholm, and the township of Louisville, to the river St. Lawrence ; thence along the shore thereof to the line, run for the north line of this State, in the 45th degree of north latitude ; thence east along the same to the west bounds of the tract formerly set apart as bounty lands for the troops of this State, serving in the army of the United States; thence southerly...
עמוד 244 - Au Long Saut, in the river St. Lawrence, and a tract equal to six miles square in the vicinity of the village of St. Regis, be excepted out of the above contract, and to remain the property of the State. Provided always that if the said tract shall not be hereafter applied for the use of the Indians of the said village, that then the same shall be considered as included in this contract, and that I shall be entitled to a grant of the same on my performance of the stipulations aforesaid. ALEXANDER...
עמוד 244 - ... at the end of one year from the day on which this proposal shall be accepted, and the residue in five equal installments on the same day, in the five next succeeding years. The first payment to be secured by bond, to the satisfaction of your honorable board, and if paid on the time limited and new bonds to the satisfaction of the board executed for another sixth of the...
עמוד 282 - Far above the chilly waters of Lake Avalanche, at an elevation of 4,293 feet, is Summit Water, a minute, unpretending tear of the clouds — as it were — a lonely pool, shivering in the breezes of the mountains, and sending its limpid surplus through Feldspar brook to the Opalescent river, the well-spring of the Hudson.
עמוד 6 - His rifle, which affords protection against wild beasts, at times replenishes his well husbanded provisions, and his axe aids him in constructing from bark or bough some temporary shelter from storm, or hews into logs the huge trees which form the fierce, roaring, comfortable fire of the camp. Yet, though the woodsman may pass his life-time in some section of the wilderness it is still a mystery to him. Following the line of axe-marks upon the trees; venturing along the cliff walls of the streams...
עמוד 248 - At a Council held at Fort George in the City of New York, on Friday the Ninth day of September 1768.