HANDBOOK OF CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURE. 



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productions, industries, education, characteristics, can only 

 receive each a single paragraph in this Handbook of Con- 

 necticut Agriculture, but there is such a natural inter- 

 dependence between them all, with a reflex influence each 

 upon every other that they cannot be omitted even if confined 

 to a single line. 



Connecticut is bounded on the south by Long Island 



PUTNAM WOLF-DEN, POMFRET. 



Sound, the noblest water way on the American coast, giving 

 direct communication with New York, Providence, and the 

 whole world beyond. Her daring navigators have hunted the 

 whale, the grandest game on earth, to the Arctic regions, and 

 have extended trade to the islands in the tropics, bringing 

 back the treasures of sea and land. 



The Connecticut river, the gem of New England, sepa- 

 rating two states and intersecting two others, 



"No watery glades through richer valleys shine, 

 Nor drinks the sea a lovelier wave than thine." 



