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Excerpt from The Physical Geography of New York State At the request of the American Geographical Society in 1896 a series of articles on the Physical Geography of New York State was undertaken and the first number appeared in the Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Vol. XXVIII, 1896, page 99. When these articles were begun it was my intention to cover the subject in two or three numbers; but after getting well into the task it became evident that to cover the field with any fulness would require many more chapters than were originally planned and, therefore, the series lengthened out to twelve numbers and was not finished until 1900. Since the preparation of the manuscript called for the careful consideration of the work of various investigators, there necessarily developed in connection with the work a rather full bibliography of the physical geography of New York; and, since the work of these investigators was made use of to such a marked extent, references were made to the numerous articles. The series therefore contained a rather full bibliography. As there is at present no complete account of the physiographic features of New York State, and no published bibliography of the literature on this subject, it has seemed to me well to group these articles together in a single publication, especially since the Bulletin of the, American Geographical Society is inaccessible to most geography teachers. I have been led to believe that there is some call for such a treatment on the part of the more progressive geography teachers in the State, and it is for this class of readers, and for similar teachers in other sections of the country, that the book is primarily intended. While naturally the greater part of the material in the book is based upon the work of others, I have in many instances drawn upon my own observations in various parts of the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.