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40 Eruption of Long Lake and Mud Lake, in Vermont. 
before the day was over ; and at five we were all on our hor- 
ses. We rode eastward, through a country chiefly forested, 
twelve or fifteen miles, to a scattered hamlet in the north part 
of Glover, called Keene-Corner, and settled by emigrants 
from Keene, in New-Hampshire. As we began to descend 
from the high grounds towards this hamlet, we first saw the 
valley of Barton river; originally resembling the valleys of 
other streamlets of a similar size, but, at the time of the efflux 
of the lake, excavated into a broad, deep channel, with n- 
dicular banks ; in the bottom of which the stream had worked 
out for itself a somewhat deeper bed. This river, which is 
here too small for a mill-stream, issues from Mud Lake, four 
miles south from Keene-Corner, and after running no 
from this hamlet about seven miles to the village of Barton, 
turns somewhat to the north-west, flows about fifteen miles, 
and is discharged into Lake Memphremagog. Iwas most 
agreeably surprised, as I descended the hills which overlook 
the valley of the river, to find the ravages made by the flood 
so distinctly visible, after the lapse of thirteen years. Our 
first view of the ation presented a gul/ey,* or excavation 
in the earth, extending up and down the river as far as its 
course was visible, and varying in breadth from twenty to 
forty rods, and in depth from twenty to forty feet. This im- 
mense channel, except what had been previously worn away 
by the gradual attrition of the streamlet, had all been hollow- 
ed out at once by the violence of the torrent. Its sides were 
precipices ofearth or sand, every where indicating the avul- 
sion of the mass which had been adjacent, and exhibiting in 
frequent succession, large rocks laid bare and often jutting 
out into the 3 and near the top the uncovered roots of 
trees, which, having been partially undermined by the water, 
we should not be disappointed. 
* The word gulley, is the word employed by the inhabitants to denote the 
pond in the earth, which the torrent hollowed out for its own e5 
use oe want of a better, It is, however, a word of not unfrequent 
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