(C.) TABLE showing population, banking capital, local assessors' valuation of real estate for 1861, and the rate per capita of banking capital; also of personal estate, and the excess of personal estate per capita of real estate, and of local assessors' valuation of the same. over bank capital, as well as the rate per capita of the equalized value CHAPTER IX. GROUP V: Counties-Boundaries-Topography-Prof. Hall's Description-Counties Described -Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Erie, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Oswego, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, WyomingArea-Population-Capital in Agriculture-Value of Real Estate-Personal-Distribution of Land-Grass-Tillage Crops-Vegetable Products and Value-Animals-Products and Value-Agriculture-Can be Improved-Appendix-Agricultural Statistics-Assessed Value -Financial Table. GROUP V. Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Erie, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Oswego, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, and Wyoming, 18 counties. BOUNDARIES. This group is bounded on the cast by the west line of the 3rd and 4th groups; westerly by the east end of Lake Ontario, the east line of Onondaga county, and by Lake Erie and part of the Pennsylvania line; north, by the south line of the counties composing the 6th group, and south by the Pennsylvania line. It extends in the form of an L, with its shortest leg to the north across the State from the east line of the county of Broome west, and from the Pennsylvania line on the south line of the same county to the St. Lawrence river on the north-west line of Jefferson county, embracing the southern and south-western tier of counties, and the midland and north-western midland counties. Nearly the whole surface lies upon the upper members of the New York system of sedimentary rocks, and occupies except in some small localities all the series above the Hamilton group, and above the limestone series, and upon the argillaceous and silicious members of the group. TOPOGRAPHY. In its topography, it is a vast aggregation of water sheds whose drainage is at varions angles with the direction of the great rivers that bear away its surplus waters, southwardly either into the Chesapeake or Delaware bays, through the Susquehanna or Delaware rivers, or westwardly into the Gulf of Mexico, through the Allegany and Ohio and Mississippi, and in some exceptional localities into the Ontario basin, through the St. Lawrence river. The Genesee river taking its rise in the northern highlands of Pennsylvania, drains to the north into Lake Ontario, the waters from the divides between its valleys and those of the Allegany on the west, and Susquehanna on the east. And although it is the only stream in the State that runs north across its whole breadth, yet it by no means modifies the general surface or characteristics of the group. At some time, in the history of this globe the sedimentary rocks of the New York system have reached from the Catskill mountains at an elevation of nearly three thousand feet above the level of the sea, far on to the west and beyond the western bounds of the State. The new red sandstone found near the Pennsylvania line on the highest hills in Cattaraugus county and that upon the Catskill mountains indicates that the same cause which |