THE 
AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &c. 
Arr. I.—On the Water Courses, and the Alluvial and Rock For- 
mations of the Connecticut River Valley ; by Aurrep Surru.* 
I. Connecticut River. 
Sources and course.—Connecticut River rises on the southern slope 
of the Highlands which divide the United States from Lower Can- 
ada, where its head waters form a lake, three miles in length, 
which in recent times has received the name of Connecticut. The 
surface of Lake Connecticut, is about one thousand six hundred 
ip. 
mill stream which dashes over the rocky outlet of this lake runs 
towards the southwest, falling about six hundred feet in the first 
twenty five miles of its course. river then turns to a more 
southerly direction. Winding its “way through frequent meadows, it 
asses by Lancaster, N. H. to the head of the Fifteen mile falls, 
which consist of a succession of rapids with a descent of three hun- 
dred and fifty feet in twenty miles. The base of the White Moun- 
* Mr. Smith, the author of the annexed article, has, within a few _nerig sian ied 
investigated the topography of the great valley of the Connecticut. This stiga- 
tures of this wate and — regi 
ing ing Houmas n the geology and 
topography = the — ie ‘written - annexed account, which, with the aid of 
(those ni eatly rae ce, has been 
rse of popu 
ty of Hertford, as a part roll a cou ular lectures 
e present season, by endian of that place, 
recently read in the cit 
which is sustained there, during t 
who contribute their personal efforts to this laudable pur; 
has not been ¢ i —— to alter this essay from the form which it re- 
ceived, as a popular lect 
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