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three large branches, called the first, second and third 

 l)]'auches. The first rises in the town of "Washington, in 

 Orange county, near the head of Waits and Winooski rivers, 

 running through Chelsea and Tunbridge, andur.ites in Royal- 

 ton. The second branch rises in Williamstown in conjunc- 

 tion with Stevens' branch of the Winooski, and running 

 southerly through Brookfield and Randolph, enters White 

 river near the center of Royalton. This trilnitary runs 

 with a gentle current through a narrow tract of fine intervale. 

 The third branch originates in Roxbury, in Washington 

 county, runs through Granville, Braintree, and joins at Bethel 

 village. Each of these streams is about 20 miles in length 

 and affords large resources of power, especially at the village 

 of Bethel. 



The Omporapanoosuc rises in Yersliire, passes West 

 Fairlee, Thetford, where it receives a considerable increase 

 from Fairlee lake, and enters the Connecticut in Norwich. 

 It receires other tributaries in its 20 miles course, and 

 affords some of the best undeveloped water power in the 

 State. 



Waits, in its main branch, rises in Harris' Gore, in Wash- 

 ington county, passes through Topsham, Corinth and a 

 branch through Washington, and joins at Bradford. This 

 river and all its branches are lively streams and afford a large 

 power. In Bradford, where this river is crossed by the 

 main road leading up the Connecticut, it has many falls, 

 affording excellent improved and unimproved power. 



Wells river has its source in a pond in Groton and falls 

 into Long pond in the same town, which is about 2 miles 

 long and 100 rods wide. From this pond in about half a 



