state-surveyor

Updated: May 10, 2025

On the plateau south of Mount Marcy, State-Surveyor Colvin found the little Lake Tear-of-the-Clouds to be the loftiest sheet of water in the state, four thousand three hundred and twenty-six feet above the sea, and proved it to be the lake-head of the great river Hudson.

Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop - Voyage of the Paper Canoe; a geographical journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5