Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-02-19
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On the south Of Vermont Massachusetts, IS found,
The province of Canada north, is its bound
Connection river hows down the cast side,
This state from New llampshirc - waters divides
ON the West Is te sn,e OF ork 70 ' ssSm
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Vermont north and south, unless Thompson Is wrong
Is nearly hunlcd and sixty miles long,
On Canada line it is ninety miles wide,
To cross the south end ior'y-one you mu'tr'dc'
In Vermopt n,ny hills and hirh Mountains cxtonJ
And many fine rivers in valleys descend,
From the south to the north the Green Mountains run high
branching out near tho center, and forming V
The branch lying cast : gradual swell,
Where farms arc improved and inhabitants dwell
put the principal mountains that run through the state
Arc broken PERCEPTIONS, little and great
Some portions arc rich, aud with settlements grnced
And others impass1bo rocky and waste
Thus two grand divisions by nature arc seer,
The mountains displaying their SUBMITS between
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Between the VS. stom and the st0te's eastern bound,
Wndhan county, and Windsor, and Orange, found,
Between tho same bound and the vs. northern end
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o tue west OF lne SYN pu, pY','iI we onanso'
mere behnnYoh' hu l u,,u N rIi; r'nsu,
And uhltl3nd,n nolM1t IVY w Iann ~, ntAt rcs'
between 'he e"s alu XIX XVI. li NE on VIZ w..
From the county o, lranknn ook wes,watu 10 gam
view ' "rSu islc a. 1t I,V ~, ~ na,np'u W.
Lamollle, anI OI.o9 i " r w N.Y." 'o'
Or mostly ." least, III inc iotN oi inc l.
chief tornS tho west of the mountains we meet,
The first is MontpelGr, ana government seat
Passing south we sl Nannolph ana " ondstocE survey,
Ntndsori SprlngHtlu, anu hIulcouIu sun on the why
Old Bennington mddeDury' burngi on famed,
Anu huthh., chlci 'u"hs III tle VEST may NC hlmeu,
St. Adams, lar norlhward, ranks hIsh in the west,
ANA BRANDON more sou,hWaid, we name WIN me rest
More towns OF hlsh IanN we mght name, II lnchned
some east oil the mountains, some west we might md
OF lakes we have many, which mostly are small,
Chumplain being longest and broadest of ALL
For bennty admired and conyenient for trade
a,bnpnI"i9 n" the west of vermont il JispI1yrd
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70 Cpppd" north from ITbitehaII Won NAV steer.
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And the states of Vermont and ork all tie way;
Titst narrow, then wider and wider the lake.
As to Burlington northwatd n voyage YOU take,
One hundred miles long in the states il Is seen,
With breadth iion half Of a mile to fourteen
Many miles beyond Canada line it extends.
Then steam to the river St Lawrence ii sends
South to Troy you may sail by canal, if you please,
Champlain is by westerly waters supplied,
And streams that down from the Green Mountain side
iTroullney rye, goes there rom southery soil
10 mIN WIN Mlsslssco ana ryer Lamollle
Outer Creek pours its tribute from mountains and plains
Ana Nnoosh the thousand square miles, which drains
Our ,jrer, in eencral mr., lively and smnll
TURNING numerous mills and machines as they fall
On the west of the mountains the rivers all take
westerly course TO the Hudson and lake.
Survey the east side, and the waters then seem
Ambitious to swell the Conn1ctlcuts stream.
between the Two ranges some larger streams know
a way throu Ii the mountains, and westerly flow.
In the county Orleans some small MYERS come
10 Lake Mcmphremagog, aud make 1t their home
Connecticut river, the states eastern bound,
Flows south till it falls into Long Island sound,
Its o,igin high in New Hampshire is known;
While it washes Vermont its New liamPshire's alone.
Far up the North, where its current is west,
1t is Canndo's bound for some miles on the east.
Many rivers and rivulets, little and great,
Unite with this stream from the Green Mountain state.
BY the Nuhegan river, Passumpsic and Wells,
WATTS river, and Ompompanoosnc' It swells,
White nver' ana iaechee, and Black Tyer aim
est tlVgl i uio Man" on his stream, we survey
~ 'YGiansi t,.o hundreds of yards in its way
Mnssacbnsetts il finds in lis southerly aim
tTbcn washing Connecticut gives il n name
MANI VILLAGES handsome and towns of hgh rank
And scenery delightful embellsh its bank
Onto, Crock ftom Mount Tabor sets ont for the south
Then seeks nj the lake n mouth westerly month:
From Benninr,on county through Rutland il soes
And chief of our rivers through Addison flows
Through a country most fertile s channel we tracs
Through the civ Verpenncs near the end of its race:
Fine towns in its way by this river are past
Till II enters Champlain, washing Ferrisburgh Inst
The lakes largest vessels, that move in the gale,
Eight miles 10 Nergeanes up the river can SAIL
Wnoosh to Cabot its origin owes
Southwest to Montpelier, then northwest it flows
Seventy miles it meanders aud finds what is strange,
road for its use through the Green Mountain range
Near the centie it Washington county divides
And visits the State Hons e AS onward il pdes
Through Cbittonden county il comes TO lis mouth
Washing Colchester north of IT, Burlington south
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I'VE couit'cs Ile Watet , oy I'et Luholie, ,..,
& towns, az Ieust t"el'c' nave us stIeuH III 'e'' sui
ny ~ Soun'!1 oI'eais' gives Iisc 10 'his suchm,
fueuohl9, patuy' Us source 700 we ueem
~ pats lhe Green NiountalnS With Westerly am,
I,n1 ioWS through lhe county hat peats US own hame
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a. i 10 -; tsh,,,! ' , , AZ Iio,, spu'ey eiuS
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From the township OF Lowell Mlssisco goes forth,
In the county, Orleans, TO Canada north,
Running westward some miles IN the land OF crown,
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White River, III Addison county begun,