22O PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



as a &quot;tote&quot; road when lumbering is carried on along the Upper Magallo- 

 Avay. The third, a new tote road, recently opened to the Magalloway 

 by the way of Second lake, will probably be the one that will be most 

 used, since it strikes farther up the river. The water-shed itself, and 

 the country east, is broken up into irregular groups of mountains and 

 hills, but no two groups have exactly the same kind of rocks. The axis 

 of all the higher groups is either gneiss or schist. 



The northern portion of the area of Vermont, that is represented on 

 the topographical map, is covered for the most part with forests. In 

 general, the features of the country are very irregular, and in the more 

 rugged portions the land rises to mountain heights. On the east, Mt. 

 Monadnock, in Lemington, is not far from 3,000 feet above the valley of 

 the Connecticut, while in the towns immediately south of the Grand 

 Trunk Railway there are half a score of mountain peaks. From this 

 last area streams flow in every direction, north into the Nulhegan, east 

 into the Connecticut, and south and east into the Passumpsic. 



The water-shed between the Connecticut and the St. Lawrence runs 

 south-west from the head of Hall s stream through the township of 

 Auckland, and when it strikes Hereford it runs nearly west almost to the 

 limit of the township ; thence it runs directly south about four miles, 

 when it turns westerly into Barford ; and thence it runs southward, and 

 enters Vermont in the extreme west part of Canaan. It then runs south 

 between Great Averill and Little Leach ponds. Between these the 

 height of land is probably not more than fifty feet. From Great Averill 

 pond it runs south perhaps a mile and a half below Little Averill, thence 

 westward, bending northward around the head of the north branch of the 

 Nulhegan, and strikes the Grand Trunk Railway in Warren Gore, when 

 it turns abruptly southward and eastward, and strikes the Grand Trunk 

 Railway again two miles south-east of Island Pond village. Southward 

 the road from Island Pond to Burke crosses the water-shed near the 

 southern line of Brighton ; from thence it has generally a westerly trend, 

 and the Passumpsic railroad crosses it in the north-west part of Sutton, 

 when it passes out of the limit of our map. The great irregularity of 

 surface in this north-east section of Vermont is due principally to the 

 great difference in the character of the rocks. There are few areas of 

 equal extent where so great a variety of crystalline rocks are found. 



