The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-08-22

give profitable employment to more than a
hundred persons.
.Newbluysix or seven miles above Bradford
is one of the Oldest towns in Vermont, and
was originally settled by emigrants from
| Newbury in Massachusetts. 1t was the
scene Of many skirmishes between the in-
habtants and the Indians. The Great Or
BO.C, one ofthe most extensive intervales on
the Connecticut river, is in this town. Its
outline is in the form of an OK bow, (whcnce
its name) made by the bending course of the
river. 1t contains some hundreds ofacres-
The soil is alluvial, and is not exceeded in
richness and capacity of production by the
boosted prairies of the West. The principal
village bounds this intcrvale on its western
side, standing on n table ofland, elevated some
forty or fifty feet above the surface of the in
tervale, and consisting mainly of one broad
and level street. The houses have generally
an air Of antiquity, though there is no appear
ance ofpoverty. The old meeting house.
said TO be the first one ever built in the State
with steeple,-is no great ornament to the
village. Its ragged walls and broken win
dows are tokens ofrapld decay. 1t is not
now used as aplace fworship--the religious
society having built another, but much small
or one, at short distance, which, like IA
thousand others in New. England, sets all
ton are chiefly engaged in agrculture--uu
employment which, it'suitably followed must
produce liberal income, and place its fol-
lowers in an enviable competence, if not in n
state ofentire independence.
| UettS RiUer Htage is the upper part of the
| town OF n ewbury, five or six miles above the
! village last mentioned. 1t is at the mouth of
| Wells River, where there is bridge across
/ the Connecticut, which is said to he the most
| profitable TO the proprietorS of any ofthe nu-
mcrous bridges which span that beautiful
stream. There is bank here of undouhted
credit, which affords facilities 10 men OF bus-
ness in many of the surrounding towns.
Passing along the bank of the Connecticut,
througha part OF the town of Ryegde, the
traveller comes TO Barnet, for its
excellent dairies. In this town there are three
or four considerable villages. IN one ofthem
there is an excellent fall of water, which al
tords unrYaled sites for mills and factories.
Standing on its banks are several saw mills,
Il grlst mill, and two factories, erected for the
manufacture of flannel. One of these is not
! in operation, its last proprietor having failed,
and sought employment IN some other region.
| Next above Barnet is the town OF 81. Johns
! bury which has three or four handsome villa
yes. The first in order is called st. JOhnSbUy
/ PLAIN, which is Il spacious cNpausc OF table
land, on the western bank Of Passumpsic rv-
or. The main street is wide and lined with
stores, houses aud mechanics shops exhibit
ing undoubted evidences ofthe industry and
economy otthe people. Within haIfa mile
olthls village Corning almost part ofit) on n
branch OF the Pussumpsic, is the Patent Plat
form Balance Factory of f. & Y. Fairbanks
| x Co.
( Three or four miles north ofthis village, is a.
notHer, called 81. JOhaSbuyy Centre, a beauIi-
full spot, intersccted by the Passumpsc, which
is here as broad as Charles river at Water
town. The houses are neat, and in good re-
pair. There are three meeting houses, Il large
school house, &c. Six or seven miles fur
Their to the north is the village of Lyndon Cor
ner, and two miles beyond that is Lyndon Cen
be-both handsome and thriving places.
From hence it is ten miles or over to Barton.
the road passing through Sutton, Il town
noted for the excellence of the products ofits
diaries. The road through this place passes
over high land, but the farms generally APP
! pear to be well cultivated. The hills, or rath-
er mountains, are susceptible oftillage quite
10 their submits, and many of them, though
quite in the neighborhood OF clouds, are COW
cred with grain, grass and potatoes. 1t is a
remarkable peculiarly of the Vermont noun
tains in this region, that the soil is triable and
productive, even at the highest points, while
those in New Hampshire are mostly Gro Wned
with rocks.
From Barton the road passes through
BrO,cning literally village set on hill,
I-aromantlc town, the chief business ofWhich
is farming. From thence to Derby Centre is
a road, to travel which in stage coach, driv-
ell at the speed common TO the Green Noun
tain drivers, would cure the most inveterate
dyspeptic. From Derby Centre to Daby Line,
is three or four miles. The village which
takes this name is the forty fifth parallel of
latitude which is the dividing line between the
United States aud the British province ofCan-
ada. The town north ofthe line at this place
| is Stanstead. The villages are essentially
one, i'll every respect, save that of belonging
to different governments. No stranger would
conjecture that the whole was not IL Yankee
town, if he did not notice the monuments e.
lected on the roads that cross the boundary,
and read their inscriptions. The inhabitants
have no distinct pecularities TO indicate that
they belong to two nations, and their inter-
course is that ofneighbors aud friends.
A mile or two north ot'this village is SIAN
stead Plain. The dwelling houses, stores, tav
ems, school houses, and churches, are all of
the Yankee character. Probably the greater
portion of the inhabitants are emigrants or
the offspring of emigrants, from the New Eng
land states, who have carried with them the
habits, manners and rincples-perhaps the
prejudices-oitheir native places.
The farms in Stanstead are in high state
ofcultivaton. The soil is rich, the face otthe
country level, or gently undulating, and COW
cred with luxuriant crops ofgrass, wheat, oats,
corn, potatoes, turnips, anda the sorts ofveg
etdbles which are necessary for the subsis-
tence of man and his domestic animals. The
people of this place-and it is the same, we
advantage over their neighbors ofthe states
they nnY no tnXnS for the SuDnOrt of novern-