. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . - W YTfT- A5T0R, ANDTILJGM. FOJMDATIONS. PICTURESQUE BUBLIXGTOy. y the lake dotted with picturesque islands, the grand snow-cappedmountains, the noble forests, with many trees like those of hisnative France, hung with luxuriant vines. He talked with theIndians about the valley and its inhabitants. He saw fourbeautiful islands ten, twelve and fifteen leagues in length, form-erly inhabited, as well as the Iroquois river, by Indians, butabandoned since they have been at war the one with the saw on t
. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . - W YTfT- A5T0R, ANDTILJGM. FOJMDATIONS. PICTURESQUE BUBLIXGTOy. y the lake dotted with picturesque islands, the grand snow-cappedmountains, the noble forests, with many trees like those of hisnative France, hung with luxuriant vines. He talked with theIndians about the valley and its inhabitants. He saw fourbeautiful islands ten, twelve and fifteen leagues in length, form-erly inhabited, as well as the Iroquois river, by Indians, butabandoned since they have been at war the one with the saw on the east very high mountains capped with snow,and was told by the Indians that the Iroquois dwelt there, andthat there were beautiful valleys and fields fertile with corn ;and, .says Champlain, other mountains were .soon , upon the west .side ot the lake. What a picture is suggested by the meagre description inChamplains journal of this finst voyage of the white man throughthe lake that preserves his name to As the longline of canoes advanced, paddled
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