. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . - Fulton on the Raritan and Hudson rivers in 1808. From this time on, progress in navigation upon Lake Cham-plain was rapid. Steamboat companies were organized, steamerswere built, and a large freight and passenger traffic ensued. LakeChamplain was the most famous and most interior water-way on the continent. The fame of the lake and its steamboatsbecame world-wide, and travellers were attracted from all parts ofthe globe, its steamers being at one time the most notable and thebest in the world.
. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . - Fulton on the Raritan and Hudson rivers in 1808. From this time on, progress in navigation upon Lake Cham-plain was rapid. Steamboat companies were organized, steamerswere built, and a large freight and passenger traffic ensued. LakeChamplain was the most famous and most interior water-way on the continent. The fame of the lake and its steamboatsbecame world-wide, and travellers were attracted from all parts ofthe globe, its steamers being at one time the most notable and thebest in the world. The first .steamer to be built after the Vermont,was seized by Commodore Macdonough, before completion, and. r i Tx4i^ N£V/YOF ? PICTURESQUE BURLINGTON. 23 used as the Ticonderoga in the battle of Plattsburgh. The nextwas the Phcenix, 146 feet long, 27 feet beam, with a 45-horse-power engine. She began service in 1815 between Whitehall andSt. Johns, charging ten dollars for the trip. vShe was burned nearProvidence Island on the night of vSeptember 5, iSig, with a lossof six lives. Following her came the Chaniplain, the Congressand a second Phoenix. Steam had slowly fought its way to supremacy in the na\iga-tion of I^ake Chaniplain. Fifteen years had elapsed since itsadvent when another change in the commercial traffic of the lakeoccurred. The opening of the Chaniplain Canal in 1823 createda revolution in the carrying trade of the lake, and changed thecourse of the commerce of the valley from Canada to New vessels soon went out of use. Companies with large capitalbuilt steamers to tow the fleets of canal boats ; and it was not longbefore canal boats were going to and coming from
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