VERMONT 



VERMONT 



making sensational criticism of the institutions 

 of higher education and arousing wide interest. 

 In 1915, upon the recommendation of the com- 

 mission, a new code was adopted providing for 

 public supervision over all state funds, inspec- 

 tion of all institutions receiving state aid and 

 approval of their expenditures. The same sums 

 as were formerly donated were given to Mid- 

 dlebury College and Norwich University, and 

 the appropriation for the University of Ver- 

 mont was increased by $6,500. 



There is no state board of charities, chari- 

 table and penal institutions being controlled 

 by separate boards of directors under the gen- 

 eral supervision of a board of visitors, con- 

 sisting of the governor, lieutenant governor, 

 speaker of the house of representatives and a 

 woman appointed by the governor. State in- 

 stitutions are a house of correction at Rutland, 

 a soldier's home at Bennington, a state sani- 

 tarium at Pittsford, an industrial school at 

 Vergennes, hospitals for the insane at Brattle- 

 boro and Waterbury, and a state prison at 

 Windsor. The deaf, dumb, blind and feeble- 

 minded are cared for at the state's expense in 

 institutions in Massachusetts and Connecticut. 

 In 1915 a law was passed making the education 

 of the blind compulsory. Vermont is conspicu- 

 ous in the use of the honor system in the 

 state penitentiary, and under this system pris- 

 oners are employed outside of the jail. 



The Land. Vermont is a section of the New 

 England upland, broken by fir-clad mountain 

 ranges, cut by deep valleys and swift, clear 

 streams and studded with sparkling mountain 

 lakes. The Green Mountains extend nearly 

 through the state, from north to south, a little 

 west of the center of the state, the loftiest of 

 their rounded peaks being Mount Mansfield, 

 Killington Peak, Camel's Hump, Mount Lin- 

 coln and Jay Peak, all having elevations of 

 over 4,000 feet. Mount Mansfield, the tallest, 

 is 4,364 feet high. Along the east shore of I 

 Champlain are low foothills at the base of tin 

 Green Mountains. In the eastern part of the 

 state is a low range called the Granite Moun- 

 tains, in which Mount Ascutney rises 3,320 

 feet abruptly above the Connecticut Vail- \ 

 Along the shores of Lake Champlain the land 

 is lower than elsewhere in the state, the eleva- 

 tion being but 110 feet above sea level. Grand 

 Isle, Isle La Motte and the Hero Islands in 

 upper Lake Champlain are the largest islands 

 belonging to Vermont. 



Rivers and Lakes. Swift rivers, foaming 

 through rocky gorges, falling over granite ledges 



or flowing between wooded banks in fertile 

 valleys, form three drainage systems finding 

 outlets to the sea. The eastern section of the 

 state is drained by the Connecticut, flowing 

 into Long Island Sound, and its tributaries, 

 the Deerfield, West, Waits, Williams, Pas- 

 sumpsic, Ottaquachee, White and Nulhegan 

 rivers. In the north, the Black River and the 

 Barton River flow into Lake Memphremagog, 

 thence into the Saint Lawrence. The only riv- 

 ers in the interior at all navigable are the Mis- 

 sisquoi, Lamoille, Winooski and Otter Creek, 



OUTLINE MAP OF VERMONT 

 Showing boundaries, principal rivers, leading 

 cities, quarrying centers, and the highest point 

 of land in the state. 



draining into Lake Champlain. Most of tin- 

 streams of the southwest section are small. 



The greater part of Lake Champlain, the 

 largest lake of New England, lies in Vermont. 

 On the northern border of the state is beauti- 

 ful Lake Memphremagog, lying between the 

 rugged projections of Owl's Head and Jay 

 Peak on the west and rolling farm country on 

 the east. Willoughby Lake, in the south, and 

 Bomoseen, Saint Catherine and Dunmon 

 the Champlain valley, are other large, pic- 

 turesque lakes. The crystal waters of these 

 and many smaller lakes abound with pike, pick- 

 erel, perch and bass, and their shores are bor- 

 dered by many summer colonies. 



