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Title: Annual report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
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d Black rivers,which empty into Lake Ontario ; on the headwaters of the Delaware and Susque-hannah ; and on the headwaters of the Allegany and Genesee. This distributionincludes substantially the entire State except the lowlands, from which the whitepine had been taken by the early settlers long before Torrey wrote. The Adirondack tourist of to-day can still see in the tall trees at Paul Smiths,or in the noble colonnade along the shores of Forked Lake, further evidence ofits widely extended habitat. The Catskill region was also rich in white pine, although there was a strongadmixture of hemlock on its mountainous slopes. An old number of the UlsterCounty Gazette contains an advertisement, dated November 13, 1799, which readsas follows: * New York Historic Trees. New York Times, May 12, 1901. fThe mountain laurel, Kalmia, so abundant in the Catskills, was discovered by this scientist andnamed after him. FIRST SETTLEMENTS IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK 0 5 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Scale of Miles.
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E N N S V A N Note. The figures on this map are the dates when the first settlers arrived in the respective localities. In each case a sawmill was erectedwithin a few years, and in some instances the erection of the sawmillantedated the settlement. (See appendix.) Hence the dates shown on themap indicate closely the beginnings of the lumber industry throughoutthe State. Settlements in groups of yearshave teen colored as follows ;

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