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Marcy, Mount

(Encyclopedia) Marcy, Mount, 5,344 ft (1,629 m) high, NE N.Y., in the Adirondack Mts.; highest peak in the state. Lake Tear of the Clouds, on its southern slope, is the source of the main headstream…

Yonkers

(Encyclopedia) YonkersYonkersyŏnˈkərz [key], city (1990 pop. 188,082), Westchester co., SE N.Y., on the east bank of the Hudson, in a hilly region just N of the Bronx (New York City); inc. 1855.…

Fort Saint John

(Encyclopedia) Fort Saint John, town, NE British Columbia, Canada, on the Peace River and the Alaska Highway. A North West Company post established in…

Erskine, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Erskine, Robert, 1735–80, geographer and surveyor general to the American Revolutionary army, b. Dunfermline, Scotland. His several hundred detailed maps of the region W of the Hudson…

Kuujjuaq

(Encyclopedia) KuujjuaqKuujjuaqk&oomacr;jˈjwăk [key], village (1991 pop. 1,405), N Que., Canada, on the Koksoak River near its mouth at Ungava Bay. It is a Hudson's Bay Company post, established…

Cliffside Park

(Encyclopedia) Cliffside Park, borough (2020 pop. 25,693), Bergen co., NE N.J., on the Palisades above the Hudson River, opposite New York City; inc.…