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GAZETTEER OF VERMONT. 



Part III. 



CAMBRIDGE. 



CAMEL S HUMP. 



tiers brought their provisions with them, 

 and vvlien their meat failed, they hunted 

 the moose. The first improvements were 

 made on the flats along the Lamoille, the 

 waters of which frequently swept away 

 or spoiled in fall the products of summer. 

 The crops of pumpkins frequently floated 

 away and landed safely on the shores of 

 Grand Isle. When tlieir mill dams were 

 swept away, the people ground their grain 

 in mortars, which they called -jAumping 

 mills. They were made by burning a 

 large cavity in the top of a stump, and 

 suspending a large pestle to a spring pole. 

 The town was organized March 29, 17S."), 

 and John Fasset was first town clerk. 

 David Saffbrd was first representative 

 and John Saff"ord taugiit the first school 

 in town. The religious denominations 

 are Congregationalists, Baptists, Episco- 

 palians, and Methodists. The Rev. Eli- 

 jah Woolagc was settled over the Congre- 

 gational church in 1805, and dismissed in 

 1806; the Rev. John Truaire, November 

 21, 1810, and dismissed in 1812. The 

 Rev. Royal A. Avery was settled in 1824. 

 Their meeting house was erected in 1805, 

 in the village called the Borough. The 

 first Elder of the Baptist church was 

 Joseph Call who was succcded by Elder 

 Samuel Holmes, who died in 1813. The 

 dysentery prevailed here in 1806, and 

 was very mortal. In Cambridge, 21 died, 

 and as many more along the river in its 

 immediate vicinity. Tlie river Lamoille 

 enters this town on the east side one mile 

 from the northeast corner, and after run- 

 ning a serpentine course of 12 miles, in 

 which it receives north branch from the 

 north, and Brewster's river and Sey- 

 mour's brook from the south, passes the 

 west line of the town, one mile from the 

 southwest corner. These streams afl'ord 

 numerous mill privileges. The surface 

 of the town is uneven, and, in some places 

 rough. The land is, however, generally 

 good, and on the river are about 5000 acres 

 of valuable intervale. A branch of dead 

 creek, which is a branch of Missisco river, 

 rises in this town, and another branch of 

 said creek issues from Metcalf pond in 

 Fletcher, and runs across the northwest 

 corner of the town. The town is well 

 watered, and the timber of various kinds. 

 There are three small villages. The vil- 

 lage called the Boi-ough, is on the south 

 side of the river Lamoille, in the south- 

 west corner of the town, on the post road, 

 and contains a Congregational meeting 

 house, 3 stores, 2 taverns, and mills and 

 other machinery. The centre village is 

 on the south side of the Lamoille near the 

 centre of the town, west of Brewster's 

 river, and contains a meeting house a 



store, tavern, trip hammer shop, fulling 

 mill, Ac. The town meetings and the 

 meetings of the Baptist society for religi- 

 ous worship are held here. The other vil- 

 lage is one mile north of the Borough, and 

 is called the Harbor. The old Spartan, 

 David Saff'ord, settled here with several 

 of his friends. The town is divided into 

 12 school districts. There are two grist 

 mills, with two run of stones each, six 

 saw mills, two clothier's works, two card- 

 ing machines, one trip hammer shop, five 

 stores, three taverns and one tannery. 

 Statistics of 1840. — Horses, 644 ; cattle, 

 3,180; sheep, 8,370; swine, 1,228; wheat, 

 bu. 3,531 ; liarley, 15; oats, 10,606; rye, 

 291; buckwheat, 89 ; Indian corn, 6,436 ; 

 potatoes, 73,100; hay, tons, 5,329; sugar, 

 lbs. 64,111; wool, 19,091. Population, 

 1,790. 



Camel's Hump, next to the Chin in 

 Mansfield, is the most elevated summit 

 of the Green Mountains. It is situated 

 in the eastern part of Huntington, near 

 the west line of Duxbury. Its height 

 above tide water has been computed to be 

 4,188 feet, and 3,600 feet above the sit© 

 of the State house, at Montpelier. It is 

 17 miles west of Montpelier, 25 northeast- 

 erly from Middlebury, and 20 southeast 

 from Burlington. This summit is con- 

 spicuous from the whole valley of lake 

 Champlain, and the prospect which it 

 commands is hardly surpassed in extent 

 and beauty. The summit is hardly ac- 

 cessible except from the north. It is usu- 

 ally ascended by way of Duxbury, where 

 clarriages can approach within about 3 

 miles of the summit. The remainder of 

 the way can be pau.sed on foot without 

 difficulty, excepting about half a mile 

 which is very steep and rugged. The 

 rocks which compose the mountain are 

 wholly of mica slate, and the Hump is 

 nearly destitute of soil or vegetation, only 

 a few mosses, stinted shrubs and alpine 

 plants being met with. This mountain 

 is often erroneously called Camel's Rump. 



Canaan, a post town, lying in the 

 northeast corner of Essex county, and 

 entirely at the northeastern extremity of 

 the state. It is in lat. 44° 57' and long. 

 5° 22', and contains about 29 square miles. 

 It is bounded north by Hereford, Canada, 

 east by Connecticut river, and southwest 

 by Lemington and Averill. It lies oppo- 

 site Stewartstown, N. H. The northeast 

 corner of the town is the most easterly 

 land in Vermont, and lies in long. .5° 29' 

 east, and 71° 33' west from Greenwich. 

 This town was granted to William Will- 

 iams, Jonathan and Arad Hunt, and others. 

 February 26, 1782, it received a new 

 charter, and October 23, 1801, the town 



