ITHACA  , a

city and the county-seat of Tompkins county, New York, U.S.A., at the southern end of Cayuga Lake, 6o m . S.W. of Syracuse . Pop . (189o) 11,079, (1900) 13,136, of whom 1310 were foreign-born, (1910 census) 14,802 . It is served by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and the Lehigh Valley railways and by interurban electric line; and steam-boats ply on the lake . Most of the city is in the level valley, from which it spreads up the heights on the south, east and west . The finest residential district is East Hill, particularly Cornell and Cayuga Heights (across Fall Creek from the Cornell campus) . Renwick Beach, at the head of the lake, is a pleasure resort . The neighbouring region is one of much beauty, and is frequented by summer tourists . Near the city are many 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 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

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