206 Connecticut River Valley. 
tains extends to the river, along the Fifteen mile falls, now one hundred 
yards broad, and pushes its channel twenty miles towards the west. 
Thence the river proceeds in a more southerly direction two hundred 
miles, where it is met by tide water at the foot of Enfield falls, twelve 
miles above Hartford, and is three hundred yards in width. From 
the head of tide water the river continues, thirty miles, to Middle- 
town, where suddenly changing to the southeast, it pursues its new 
course thirty miles farther to Long Island Sound. - 
Falls and rapids.—The other principal falls and rapids are the 
White River Falls, at Hanover, N. H. with thirty six feet of descent; 
Bellows Falls, near Walpole, fifty feet; Miller’s and Montague Falls, 
seventy feet ; Hadley Falls, at South Hadley, Ms. fifty feet; and 
Enfield Falls, thirty feet. These added to intervening smaller rap- 
ids, make a total descent of nearly four hundred and fifty feet be- 
tween the foot of the fifteen mile falls and tide water. 
Length.—The length of Connecticut River, measuring all its 
windings, is four hundred miles. The length of its valley, avoiding 
the smaller curvings of the stream, is over three hundred miles. 
Navigation—Coasting vessels ascend the river, fifty miles, to 
Hartford. Boat navigation, by the aid of locks at Enfield Falls, 
Hadley Falls, Miller’s and Montague Falls, Bellows Falls; a small 
rapid called Quechy Falls; and White River Falls, extends two 
hundred miles above tide water. 
Il. Vauuey or Connecticut River. 
Width.—The valley of the Connecticut, embracing within that 
term all the tract of country from whose surface rains and streams 
flow into Connecticut river, has a very irregular boundary and unequal 
breadth. The courses of the bounding summits are easily traced 
upon the map. The breadth of the valley, from the eastern to the 
western summit, measured on parallels of latitude, is, at Lake Con- 
necticut, twenty miles; at the Fifteen mile Falls, fifty miles ; at Hav- 
erhill, N. H. twenty five miles; at Orford, N. H. and across the © 
sources of the tributary White river, fifty miles, ten miles of whieh 
lie east, and forty miles west of the Connecticut. From the north to 
near the south line of Massachusetts is the widest part of the valley, 
averaging fifty five miles. At Hartford the breadth is thirty two miles, 
at Middletown about twenty miles, and thence the valley narrows 
to the mouth of the river. The widths stated, being measured in 
straight lines, upon the map, are much less than the length of the 
