Erupiion of Long Lake and Mud Lake, in Vermont. 42 
Having engaged a dinner at a sorry substitute for an inn, 
we turned tothe south, and ascended Barton River, about 
four miles. In order to see the ravages of the flood more per- 
fectly, we left the usual path on the left bank of the gulley, 
and rode all the way in its bed, over ground regularly ascen- 
ding, until we came upon the northern shore of Mud Lake. 
This-lake was originally the source of Barton River, and 
lay. directly in the path along which the waters of Long 
Lake flowed, at the time ef its evacuation. Here, of neces- 
sity, we left the gulley, and rode along the eastern shore of 
Mud Lake, until we had passed it; when, resuming our route 
in the bed of the gulley, we found ‘the ground ascending ve 
rapidly, until we entered the bed of the discharged lake. 
tied 
Having rode about half its length, we rses, 
our way on foot, through the middle of its bed 
to the m e lere, ascending the bank to the 
original water-level, we. could survey the whole bed of the 
jake, with its shores a the surrounding scenery. 
From my own personal observation, and from minute ine 
quiries made of several individuals who were concerned in let- 
ting off the water, and of several graneme who were present 
at the legal investigation which it occasioned, I posse 
myself of the following facts. 
Lake, it was drained, was a beautiful dheet of 
water, about a mile and a Thalf in length i north to south, 
and, where largest, three fourths of a mile in breadth. For 
about five hundred yards from the southern extremity, the lake 
was very narrow; and to this distance its water was shoal, 
having been no where more than ten or. twelve feet deep. 
Here there is a sudden and steep descent in its bed, to the 
depth of ahundred feet. Here also the lake opened ‘rapidly 
to the breadth of half a mile, and then more gradually to ieee 
fourths of amile. 
to one hundred and fifty feet, and deduct inh mooie 
a small distance of the northern extremity, where the lake was 
about half a mile wide. 
The eastern and western shores were bold, and rose imme- 
diately from the surface into hills of moderate height. 
hills gradually subsided into plains, as they 
the two ends of the lake, to form the northern and etch 
southern SaapeIONYs over around. “scarcely descepalings - and 
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