Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-31

lucky that one OF the most famous OF
American horses came from Bolton.
Canada.
At several places the waters of this
lake make large indentures into the land.
diversifying its shores and increasing its
extent. Here at Bolton there is a large
and beautiful bay, and towards the fur
Their end of this we landed. y road led up
Il hill, near the foot of which several men
were hayng. One of these, Mr.. Knowl-
ton, was the proprietor of the land and
lived in small but pretty house at the
top of the hill near the woods. | ar
ranged with him to take me over the
town, whilst Mr.. Brainerd volunteered to
return to Newport by steamer in the
morning and meet us with the team the
next day at Potion, Canada, the next
town south of Bolton, and about 10 miles
from Newport.
1t was beautiful evening and the lake
now lay under us almost as a sheet of
glass. Harvesting a chestnut gelding
decending in male line from Green's
Bashaw, with Morgan dam, we drove to
the village of Bronze on Bronze lake, II
or If miles, where we stopped for the
night. This ride was over or rather
through the mountains that extend up
here from Vermont, and went for
some distance near fine trout brook.
The next day we drove over a large part
of the township of Bolton. We saw a
number of its oldest living Inhabitants,
two of them over 90 and born in town,
and got what information we could about
its horses.
The town was formerly 20 miles
square. 1t is still large, though Magog
has been taken from it. 1t is largely
mountainous, but has some very good
farms. One branch of the Missisquo
rises in town and flows through Potion
into Vermont. We dined at Bolton Cen
tire, small hamlet among the mountains,
then drove into and through Potion to
the village near the line, where Mr.. Brain
erd awaited us with the team.
Potion is better farming town than
, Bolton. Both towns were settled the
, close of the last and beginning of this
century, largely by Americans. There
are now in each town several settlements
of French Canadians comprising about
one third of the population. Although
the country is good, the village in Potion
| where we stopped was fororn, very
different from that of Troy in Vermont
four or five miles distant. Indeed one
, can notice almost instantly in crossing
t the line the difference between the two
countries; one full of life and thrift, the
: other badly wanting in both.
2 Owls Head, the highest of the noun
: tains on Lake Memphremagog, and about
7 5000 feet, is in the town of Potion
f From any of the higher hills on the road
t as we'll as from the lake, we can see in
the next town north, Oxford Mountain
: over 5000 feet, and the highest in Can
ada.
. At the extreme east towards New
Hampshire or Maine are some lower hills
I But the finest of all the mountains seel
from this part of Canada is Jay Peak il
+ Vermont, about 1000 feet, guarding tn,
= border. Leaving Mr.. Knowlton at Pot
ton. Mr.. Brainerd and | crossed the lin,
to North Troy, a thriving village beauti
fully situated upon hills that command
! fine view of all the mountains in th
section, and the valleys between them
p Here we stopped an hour or two inter
+ viewing several citizens, and then driv
, ing on about eight miles to Westfield 70
n the night. Both Mr.. Brainerd and my
1 self were impressed with the delightful
situation of North Troy as well as it
, suggestions of wealth. Here also was {
/ very pretty picture in young girl no
+ over ID, and very neatly dressed, leading
q horse through the street to water
7 At Westfied, although in the nature o
private house, we found very gooC
accommodations for man and beast, es
: pecialy for beast, for the proprietor
q son was one of the few young men tina
D we have met in country villages wh'
: knew how and was disposed to tax,
: proper care of the horses. always pay
: extra for this, but there are few whC
know how to do it well.
= The next day, with an early start, W,
drove through Lowell, Eden and Hyd,
: Park to Johnson, and after dinner through
e Cambridge and Underhil to Jericho, il
e all about sixty miles. This was a new
4 part of the State to me, and a verv pretty
4 part. We started with Jay Peak an | tn
;, principal Green Mountain range close t,
5 our right, and the mountains of Iras
n burgh, Albany and Lowell that looked
a at Craftsbury, as if they were the princi
: pal range, to our left. This held tru
f when we were in the Missisquoi valley
= and before we reached the Albany noun
= tains we had lodged from this valley
t through the chain to Eden.
/ Here we passed by several pretty ponds
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