. Descriptive and illustrated guide book of the famous Watkins Glen, a New York reservation, located at Watkins, Sehuyler Co., (head of Seneca Lake). long and from one to five miles wide, is thelargest and most remarkable of the finger lakes of Central New York. With anaverage depth of 600 feet it fills an immense gorge with sparkling cold water,and its clean rocky shores and gravelly beaches are rarely met with. From adepth of 200 feet to the bottom it maintains an average temperature of 7 degreesabove the freezing point the year around; and within the memory of the whiteman it has never
. Descriptive and illustrated guide book of the famous Watkins Glen, a New York reservation, located at Watkins, Sehuyler Co., (head of Seneca Lake). long and from one to five miles wide, is thelargest and most remarkable of the finger lakes of Central New York. With anaverage depth of 600 feet it fills an immense gorge with sparkling cold water,and its clean rocky shores and gravelly beaches are rarely met with. From adepth of 200 feet to the bottom it maintains an average temperature of 7 degreesabove the freezing point the year around; and within the memory of the whiteman it has never been completely frozen over, except four times —1855, 1874,1885, 1912. The absence of large feeders prove it to be an immense spring;only two other lakes in the world possess similar characteristics. In summermany cottages and campers line its shores, and the finest trout and bass are takenfrom it in their season. It is connected with and used as a part of the bargecanal system. A boat service of several months is maintained between Watkinsand Geneva, situated at opposite ends of the lake. A topographic and theo-metric survey is appended. [ 6 ]. atkins glen, worn through thePortage and Hamilton Groups,is a deep tortuous canyon, withcliffs from one to three hundredfeet high, cut through the rockystrata of Glen Mountain, in an easterly andwesterly direction, hy a stream of pure water,having its source in springs, scattered throughthe highlands, that rise a thousand feet abovethe level of Seneca Lake to the west ot thevillage, and terminating at Entrance Amphi-theatre ; it is broken in its descent from sectionto section into cascades and pools ot rarebeauty. In making a tour of the glen fromthe village, we enter the grounds from FranklinStreet, and find ourselves in a beautiful littlepark, laid out with flower beds, paths andfountains, also a building for the accommo-dation of visitors ; nearby, is a concrete bandstand, from which the Indian trail leads upthe wooded bank. A sec
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