HISTORY OF VERMONT. 41 



place could not have had any other passage.— 

 Onion river is one of the finest streams in Ver- 

 mont. It runs through a most fertile country, 

 the produce of which for several miles on each 

 side of the river, is brought down to the Lake 

 at Burlington. It was along this river, that the 

 Indians formerly travelled from Canada, when 

 they made their attacks upon the frontier settle- 

 ments on Connecticut river. 



The river Lamoille proceeds from a pond in 

 Glover. Its general course is westerly : After 

 running about seventy five miles, and receiving 

 fourteen lesser streams, it falls into Lake Cham- 

 plain at Colchester, five miles north of the 

 mouth of Onion river ; and is of the same mag- 

 nitude as that. The river Lamoille is a fine, 

 smooth, and pleasant stream ; and runs through 

 a rich, level, fertile, country. The height of 

 the land in the northeast part of the state, seems 

 to btf about Greenborough. About six miles 

 to the southwest of the origin of the river La- 

 moille, is Scotland pond : From this proceeds 

 Black river, which, for five or six miles runs in 

 a direction opposite to, and nearly parallel, with 

 that of the river Lamoille, and discharges itself 

 into the lake Memphremagog. 



MicHiscoui is the Indian name of the most 

 northerly river in the state. It has its source 

 in Belvidere, and runs nearly northeast until it 

 has crossed the north line of Vermont : After 

 running to some distance in Canada, it turns 

 west, and then southerly, and then reenters the 

 state in Richford ; and falls into Lake Cham- 

 plain at Michiscoui bay, in Highgate. This 

 river is navigable for the largest boats to the 



