. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . ^of the lake. Another writer makes Windmill Point (Pointe a 1Algonquinof the French) in the town of Alburgh, the boundary mark beyond which the northern Indians ventured at their peril. vStill another writer states that .Split Rock {Rocher Fendu ofthe French) was the ancient boundary between the Algonquinand the Iroquois. Long did the French rue the day when theypassed through the narrow and deep waters beyond that rock andbuilt Crown Point and Ticonderoga in the land of the Iroquois. The Great Islands—Socialism
. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . ^of the lake. Another writer makes Windmill Point (Pointe a 1Algonquinof the French) in the town of Alburgh, the boundary mark beyond which the northern Indians ventured at their peril. vStill another writer states that .Split Rock {Rocher Fendu ofthe French) was the ancient boundary between the Algonquinand the Iroquois. Long did the French rue the day when theypassed through the narrow and deep waters beyond that rock andbuilt Crown Point and Ticonderoga in the land of the Iroquois. The Great Islands—Socialism. The two largest islands inthe lake. La Grande Isle of the French, still retain the name, withthe additional designation of the Two Heroes, North Hero andSouth Hero, named, it is said, in honor of the Allen brothers,Ethan and Ira. The north island was first called by the EnglishLong Island. The next largest island. Isle Ea Motte, still retains its Frenchname, but came near losing it. In 1802 the name was changed to 4u. ?ll3LiCLlH. PICTURESQUE BURLING TOX. 31 Aineyard, but in 1830 the original name was restored and theFrenchman, de la Mothe, is still honored. Just southeast of IsleLa Motte is Cloak Island, so-called, it is said, from a red cloakleft on its banks by a young girl who drowned herself and herlove sorrows near there. There are onh three islands of considerable size along theNew York shore, but each has an interesting history. CrabIsland, near Plattsburgh, was the rendezvous of the x\mericanfleet before the great naval battle ; the hospital was establishedthere and its inmates cared for the disabled vessels that reachedits shores ; and on the second day after the battle the Americanand British sailors were buried, in everlasting fraternity, side byside on the island. Schuyler Island, near Port Kent, is the /s/eAux Cliapon of the French, and here their forces encamped whileon their way to reinforce Crown Point before Abercrombiesattack in i 758. Valcour, the third i
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