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Eruption of Long Lake and Mud Lake, in Vermont. 39 
Art. II.—Description of the ¢ Eruption of Long Lake and 
ud Lake, in Vermont, and of the desolation effected 
by the rush of the waters through Barton River, and the 
lower. country, towards Lake Moatiihnedi ogy in the sum- 
mer of 1810, in a letter to the Editor. By Rev. S.Ep- 
_ warps Dwianr. 1G Yo volt 
Boston, April 4; 1826. 
MY DEAR SIR 
I left Burlington on Monday, Aug. 18, 1823, and pro- 
ceeded on horseback, in company with Mr. , an alum- 
nus of Burlington College, to Craftsbury, 60 miles; where 
we arrived at 2, P. M. on Tuesday. Through the kindness 
of my fellow traveller, an inhabitant of Craftsbury, I was 
able to engage a select and very agreeable party of five gen- 
tlemen to accompany me, on the-succeeding day; to the 
of Lone Lake, in the tao of Glover,—the lake which was 
pe Pe of its waters in the summer of 1810. In the course 
ernoon, I had leisure to examine the local situation 
piring to a greater elevation. This table-land is about net 
miles in length, and one and a half in breadth. The valley 
pattern: it was once probably a lake, and the table-land a 
large island in its centre. At present it is almost an island : 
one river seamen more than half round it, in its progress 
through the valley, and a second nearly co ompleting that part 
of the circuit which the first had left. Its situation is more than 
beautiful and picturesque ; and, in connexion with 
other more solid advantages, didlo heir te render it one ‘ of the 
most pleasant and flourishing villages in the state.  pep- 
ulation ——— oe of asuperior character ; andi it gratified 
me to learn that g-room, or atheneum, was 
gazettes of the latter. The village is well-built, and every 
thing indicated good order and gene: 
Precisely at 4, A. M. of Wednesday, I sat down with one 
of my companions to an excellent breakfast, which was’ ren- 
dered more hearty from the reflection oo ee fore worse © 
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