VERMONT 



VERNIER 



was dug out, and a raging torrent dashed away 

 to the north. The miller's family was saved 

 with difficulty. In six hours practically all the 

 water of Long Pond had found its way to 

 Memphremagog. 



Burlington is commonly known as "the Queen 

 City of Vermont." 



Many of the fences of Vermont are con- 

 structed of stone, rather than of wood or \\ 



Vermont actually "bought itself" from New 

 York, paying for its territory about $30,000. 



This state has a smaller proportion of city 

 dwellers than any other New England state, 

 considerably less than half of its population 

 living in towns of 2,500 or more. 



A real and very profitable industry of Ver- 

 mont, especially in those towns which are situ- 

 ated in the mountains or on the shore of a 

 lake, is the entertainment of boarders during 

 the summer months. E.B.P. 



Consult Collins's History of Vermont; Co- 

 nant's Geography, History, Constitution and Civil 

 Government of Vermont. 



Related Subject*. The reader who is inter- 

 ested in Vermont may consult the following arti- 

 cles in these volumes : 



Bar re 



Bennington 



Burlingrton 



CITIES AND TOWNS 



Montpelier 

 Rutland 



HISTORY 



Allen, Ethan Green Mountain Boys 



Champlain, Samuel de Ticonderoga, Battles of 



Butter 

 Cheese 

 Granite 

 Lumber 



LEADING PRODUCTS 



Marble 

 Slate 



Sugar, subhead 

 Maple Sugar 



PHYSICAL FEATURES 



Champlain (lake) Memphremagog 



Connecticut River Taconic Mountains 



Green Mountains 



VERMONT, UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational 

 institution, established at Burlington in 1791 

 by act of the state legislature. In 1865 the 

 Vermont Agricultural College was incorporated 

 with the older institution, and the organ i/ i- 

 tion became a beneficiary of the land-grant 

 act of 1862. The legal title of the institution 

 is University of Vermont and State Agricul- 



1 College. This institution is organized 

 into colleges of arts and science, engineering. 



ulture and medicine. The curriculum of 



college of arts and science includes courses 

 in home economics, educational commerce and 



lomics. Male students are required to study 

 military theory and to drill. The university 



is generous in the matter of scholarships and 

 prizes and in advancing loans to students of 

 limited means. Vermont University has a beau- 

 tiful campus overlooking Lake Champlain. The 

 regular attendance is over 1,000, and the fac- 

 ulty numbers about 118. There is a library of 

 95,000 volumes. 



VERNE, JULES (1828-1905), a French writer 

 of fiction, born at Nantes. Though trained for 

 the law, he found a greater interest in the lit- 

 erary profession, and after making unsuccess- 

 ful attempts at play-writing began the produc- 

 tion of tales of 

 adventure in 

 which the possi- 

 bilities of mod- 

 ern science are 

 treated in an ex- 

 aggerated man- 

 ner. These 

 stories have be- 

 come remarkably 

 popular, particu- 

 larly with boys, 

 and it is note- 

 worthy that some 

 of the things which Verne created and which 

 strained the credulity of his readers, as the 

 airship, the submarine and the automobile, arc 

 now actual facts. Well known among his sto- 

 ries are Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the 

 Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, The 

 Mysterious Island and From the Earth to the 

 Moon. 



VERNIER, vur'nier, an instrument for 

 measuring lengths and angles with great 

 actness. It is so called from its inventor, a 

 French mathematician named Pierre Vernier 

 (1580-1637). A vernier in common use is shown 



JULES VE1 



VERNIER 



in the illustration. It is a short, graduated 

 scale, constructed to slide along a fixed scale, 

 and having subdivisions each of which is nine- 

 tenths as long as any of the subdivisions of the 

 fixed scale. Nine small divisions on the scale 

 are therefore equal to ten on the \< mier. On 

 :uljusting the vernier, as shown in the figure, 

 we find that the left end of the vernier is 

 twenty scale divisions and a fraction to th 

 right of the zero end of the scale. :m<l t Li- 

 the line on the vernier which exactly coincides 



