What to see in America . Gathering Maple Sap leading lumber mar-kets of the this part of thelake occurred somelively naval fightingin the War of during that warthe islet Rock D un-der, which lifts itsbare surface abovethe water near Bur-lington, was mistakenby the British for a United States vessel, and was pepperedwith shot. The name of one place by the lakeside which may provokeinquiry is that of Chimney Point. A settlement grew upthere while the French were in possession of the fort on the opposite shore, butwhen the fort wascaptured the settle-ment was black
What to see in America . Gathering Maple Sap leading lumber mar-kets of the this part of thelake occurred somelively naval fightingin the War of during that warthe islet Rock D un-der, which lifts itsbare surface abovethe water near Bur-lington, was mistakenby the British for a United States vessel, and was pepperedwith shot. The name of one place by the lakeside which may provokeinquiry is that of Chimney Point. A settlement grew upthere while the French were in possession of the fort on the opposite shore, butwhen the fort wascaptured the settle-ment was blackened chim-neys, however, re-mained for years,and they gave thepoint its name. The most impor-tant industry of theGreen MountainState is crops of hay and grain are raised, and apples andother fruits are largely grown. In no other state is so higha yield of butter secured from the cows as in of the butter is made in creameries. The daily prod-. Falls at Boltonville 28 What to See in America uct of one St. Albans creamery is at times more than tentons of butter, the milk for which is gathered from six hundreddairies. Sap from Vermonts rock maples supplies more thanhalf the maple sugar made in the United States. The largersugar places have two or three thousand trees on St. Johnsbury is a great twelve-acre factory devoted tothe making of scales. It is the largest factory in its linein the world. Over one hundred varieties of scales aremade; the smallest will weigh a letter, and the largest willweigh a loaded railroad car. Another widely known manufacture of the state is that oforgans for homes and for churches and other public buildings,at Brattleboro. Back in 1835 an inventive Brattleborogenius made and operated a steam carriage on the local was the first horseless carriage ever contrived in was built at a cost of about $600 and was in existence fornearly ten years. Its speed on an ordinary carri
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