A text book of the geography, history, constitution and civil government of Vermont; also Constitution and civil government of the US., a publication expressly prepared to comply with Vermont's state school laws . ains A lovely bit of dappled green Shut in the circling hills betiveen.—Dorr. Near the western border and in the southern half of Ver-mont are the Taconic Mountains. They do not form acontinuous ridge as the Green Mountain range, but arebroken into groups. Of these, Herrick, Eolus and EquinoxMountains, and Mount Anthony are the chief. The main water-shed of Vermont coincides with the
A text book of the geography, history, constitution and civil government of Vermont; also Constitution and civil government of the US., a publication expressly prepared to comply with Vermont's state school laws . ains A lovely bit of dappled green Shut in the circling hills betiveen.—Dorr. Near the western border and in the southern half of Ver-mont are the Taconic Mountains. They do not form acontinuous ridge as the Green Mountain range, but arebroken into groups. Of these, Herrick, Eolus and EquinoxMountains, and Mount Anthony are the chief. The main water-shed of Vermont coincides with theGreen Mountain range from the Massachusetts line nearlyto Lincoln Mountain; thence it deflects to the east, crosses 28 Geography of Vermont narrow north-and-south valleys, follows along northerlyridges, extends in an irregular course to the northeasternpart of the State and at Canada line is quite near the Con-necticut River. In the town of Sheffield, about twenty miles south of LakeMemphremagog, a lateral water-shed curves reversely aroundthe headwaters of the Lamoille River and the large bend?of the Black River, in Orleans County, and follows theridge of the Lowell Mountains into Canada, thus forming. Mount Equinox, ManchesterIn the Green Valley with the main water-shed a system of drainage in the north-central part of the State, of which Lake Memphremagog isthe reservoir, known as the North Central Valley. Thatportion of the State which lies east of the main water-shedis in the Connecticut Valley, and the portion west of themain and lateral water-sheds is in the Champlain-HudsonValley. Between the Green and Taconic Mountains is what may Mountains and Valleys 29 be called the Southwest Valley of Vermont. On the eastof this valley the Green Mountains form an unbroken wall,while to the westward are the Taconic Mountains withnumerous gaps. The Central Valley of Vermont lies east of the mainrange of the Green Mountains and extends from Canadaline to the Black River, southeast f
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