A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . 4^-. VERMONT. The territory which is now included in the State of Vermont, and which liesbetween Lower Canada, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New York, was, for a long timeafter the surrounding settlements were made, in great measure unexplored by Europeans. Inits vicinity, Canada was the first known and peopled by them, and a settlement was tlien madeby the Dutch at Aurania, now Albany, and at the mouth of the Hudson. Then followed thesettlements along tlie New England shores; but a considerable period elapsed before they STATES AND TERRITOR
A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . 4^-. VERMONT. The territory which is now included in the State of Vermont, and which liesbetween Lower Canada, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New York, was, for a long timeafter the surrounding settlements were made, in great measure unexplored by Europeans. Inits vicinity, Canada was the first known and peopled by them, and a settlement was tlien madeby the Dutch at Aurania, now Albany, and at the mouth of the Hudson. Then followed thesettlements along tlie New England shores; but a considerable period elapsed before they STATES AND TERRITORIES. —VERMONT. 145 penetrated the interior, and, consequently, that interior was hardly marked but by maraudingparties of Indians, and tlie footsteps of their unfortunate captives. It is not found that any large body of the natives was cantoned within the present limits ofthe state. There was, indeed, a tribe bearing the name of Coossucks in the north-east partof it; * but these were inconsiderable in number, and hardly known in the records of war
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