. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . helittJe village of Willsborough, a mile inland. Willsborough Point, a low peninsula about fourmiles long by one wide, separates WillsboroughBay from the main lake. The Four Brothers are near the middle of thelake east of Willsborough Point. Here occurredthe running engagement between Benedict Ar-nold and Captain Pringle, in 1776, in which theEnglish were victorious. Junip<^r Island is north-east of the Brothers surmounted by a lighthouse. After leaving Essex Landing the boat passesthe Vermont side in the approach to inla
. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . helittJe village of Willsborough, a mile inland. Willsborough Point, a low peninsula about fourmiles long by one wide, separates WillsboroughBay from the main lake. The Four Brothers are near the middle of thelake east of Willsborough Point. Here occurredthe running engagement between Benedict Ar-nold and Captain Pringle, in 1776, in which theEnglish were victorious. Junip<^r Island is north-east of the Brothers surmounted by a lighthouse. After leaving Essex Landing the boat passesthe Vermont side in the approach to inland are the two highest peaks of theGreen Mountains—IMansfield, 4,360 feet above thetide, and Camels Hump, the Leon Couchant ofthe French. Shelburne Harbor is east of Bottlers are the shipyards of the CharaplainTransportation Company. It i<=: worthy of notethat but one year after Robert Fultons steamboatwas launchel on the Hudson River a steamboatwas launched at Burlington. It could run fivemiles an hour without heating the shaft! 152. PORT-DOUGLAS MAP OF LAKE CHAMPLAINSection No. 4. LAKE CHAMPLAIN 152 ?ock Dunder is a prominent ot)ject, as we near Turlington. It is a sharp cone, 20 feet highp vDove water, believed by Winslow C. Watson, thfe ■listorian, to be the famous Rock Regio so frc- uently mentioned in colonial records, Turlington is a city of nearly 25,000 inhabitants,0 miles north of Whitehall^. Burlington hasmit€ an extensive lumber market and also a var-ied line of manufacturing interests, including cot-on and woolen textiles, refrigerators, chairs,, blinds, doors, sash and machinery. Twoailroads center here, the Portland and the Ceu-ral Vermont. Direct train service is had withnoted eastern mountain and coast resorts. Thedistance from Burlington to Montreal to 95 miles;to Fabyans, 120; to Portland, 211; to Lake Win-nipesaukee, 140, to Concord, 174; to Boston, 230. The Champlain Transportation Company oper-ating the lake steamers has its gen
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