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city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Tompkins county, New See also:York, U.S.A., at the See also:southern end of Cayuga See also:Lake, 6o m. S.W. of See also:Syracuse. Pop. (189o) 11,079, (1900) 13,136, of whom 1310 were See also:foreign-See also:born, (1910 See also:census) 14,802. It is served by the See also:Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and the Lehigh Valley See also:railways and by interurban electric See also:line; and See also:steam-boats ply on the lake. Most of the city is in the level valley, from which it spreads up the heights on the See also:south, See also:east and See also:west. The finest residential See also:district is East See also:Hill, particularly Cornell and Cayuga Heights (across Fall See also:Creek from the Cornell campus). See also:Renwick See also:Beach, at the See also:head of the lake, is a See also:pleasure resort. The neighbouring region is one of much beauty, and is frequented by summer tourists. Near the city are many See also:water-falls, the most notable being Taughannock Falls (9 m. N.), with a fall of 215 ft. Through the city from the east run Fall, Cascadilla and Six Mile Creeks, the first two of which have cut deep See also:gorges and have a number of cascades and waterfalls, the largest, Ithaca Fall in Fall Creek, being 120 ft. high.

Six Mile Creek crosses the south See also:

side of the city and empties into Cayuga Inlet, which crosses the western and See also:lower districts, often inundated in the See also:spring. The Inlet receives the See also:waters of a number of small streams descending from the south-western hills. Among the attractions in this direction are Buttermilk Falls and See also:ravine, on the outskirts of the city, Lick See also:Brook Falls and glen and See also:Enfield Falls and glen, the last 7 m. distant. Fall Creek furnishes See also:good water-See also:power. The city has various manufactures, including See also:fire-arms, See also:calendar clocks, See also:traction engines, See also:electrical appliances, patent chains, incubators, auto-phones, artesian well drills, See also:salt, See also:cement, window See also:glass and See also:wall-See also:paper. The value of the factory product increased from $1,500,604 in 1900 to $2,080,002 in 1905, or 38.6%. Ithaca is also a farming centre and See also:coal See also:market, and much See also:fruit is grown in the vicinity. The city is best known as the seat of Cornell University (q.v.). It has also the See also:Ezra Cornell See also:Free Library of about 28,000 volumes, the Ithaca Conservatory of See also:Music, the Cascadilla School and the Ithaca High School. Ithaca was settled about 1789, the name being given to it by See also:Simeon De Witt in 18o6. It was incorporated as a See also:village in 1821, and was chartered as a city in 1888. At Buttermilk Falls stood 'the See also:principal village of the Tutelo See also:Indians, Coreorgonel, settled in 1753 and destroyed in 1779 by a detachment of See also:Sullivan's force.

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