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river is formed by three considerable streams and affords 

 good facilities for improved water power. 



Black river, in Windsor connty, is 35 miles in length, and 

 waters abont 160 square miles, affording the power for the 

 flourishing manufacturing villages of Ludlow, Proctorsville, 

 Cavendish, Perkinsville and Springfield, and has the capacity 

 of carrying a hundred more mills of equal power than now 

 stand upon its banks. This river is remarkable for the 

 number of natural ponds through which it passes. 



The Ottaquechee receives two considerable mill streams 

 in Bridgewater. In Woodstock, two other branches of 

 considerable size, and in its course receives numerous other 

 streams. This river and all its tributaries have most excellent 

 water privileges which could be used ten if not twenty fold 

 of their present use, and if facilities of transportation were 

 adequate every available site would be occupied. It is about 

 35 miles in length and waters about 212 square miles. 



White river is the largest stream in Yermont on the east 

 side of the mountain. Its length is about 65 miles and it waters 

 680 square miles. It rises in Granville, in Addison county, 

 running through Rochester, Hancook, Pitlsfield, Stockl)ridge, 

 Bethel, Sharon, Hartford, and enters into tlie Connecticut 

 about five miles above the Ottaquechee. From its source it 

 runs slowly through a narrow tract of intervale until it 

 arrives at Stockbridge, after which the current is very rapid 

 until it reaches Bethel village. From Bethel to its mouth 

 the channel of the river is from 16 to 18 rods in width and 

 the current generally rapid, and the water shallow. On 

 account of its proximity to the Ottaquechee, it receives no 

 large tributaries from the south. From the north it receives 



