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A very distinct beach continues to Brandon, at Forestdale, from Pittsford, and at its lower part the 

 materials are fine sand. Another Mill River joins Otter Creek below Brandon village, upon which there 

 are three terraces near Forestdale, and two in Brandon. The village is situated upon an expanded terrace, 

 and, like everything in Brandon, this terrace is well formed and attractive to the eye. 



There are two terraces upon the outlet of Lake Dunmore, Leicester River, as far as the village of Salisbury. 

 The meadow of Otter Creek is wider at the mouth of this stream, than at any other place in its course, 

 and much of it on the west side is almost worthless from its marshy condition. An unusually wide 

 meadow runs up Leicester River from the creek, but is soon narrowed. 



Two pretty terrraces pass up Middlebury River to the east part of the town ; and at the village of 

 East Middlebi. ry the meadow becomes an extensive plain. Above the second terrace, on the west side, 

 the clays rise gradually until they reach the top of a low hill east of Middlebury Court House. 



The north branch of New Haven River rises in the south part of Starksboro, and unites with the south 

 branch from Lincoln in the east part of Bristol. Upon so much of the north branch as flows through 

 Bristol, there is an immense terrace No. 4, besides the meadow, on both sides of the valley. The south 

 branch may have a few terraces upon its banks in Lincoln, but between the village and its union with the 

 north branch the banks are rocky, and the narrow valley is filled with enormous bowlders of quartz rock. 

 The same is the character of New Haven River as far as the village of Bristol. There it has emerged 

 from the mountains, and has deposited its detritus in the form of terraces. The village is situated upon a 

 high extensive terrace, No. 4, composed of sand and gravel, underlaid by tertiary deposits. This terrace 

 extends a great distance northerly towards Monkton. Hah a mile west of the village, four terraces show 

 themselves upon the north side of the river in regular succession. Of these, No. 3 is twelve rods wide, and 

 No. 2 is of little account. Upon the opposite side of the river, none of these terraces may be seen except 

 Nos. 1 and 4. Between this point and the mouth of New Haven River there are in general only two 

 terraces, which may perhaps correspond to Nos. 1 and 4. A few years ago there was a very destructive 

 freshet upon this river, of which an account was published in Thompson's Vermont, and also in a small 

 book written by one of the principal sufferers. 



The Lemonfare River, rising in Orwell and joining Otter Creek at Weybridge ; Dead Creek and its 

 branches, in the towns of Ferrisburg, Panton, Addison and Bridport, and Little Otter Creek in Ferrisburg, 

 Monkton and New Haven, are all situated upon the Champlain clays, and have therefore done little else 

 than excavate a passage for their first terraces over their whole extent. Yet they are marked as having 

 two terraces, on the map, for reasons specified above. The latter stream is not a tributary of Otter Creek, 

 but discharges its waters into Lake Champlain. 



TERRACES UPON LEWIS CREEK AND LAPLOP RIVER. 



Lewis Creek rises in Starksboro on the east side of the quartz ridge, passes through the northeast corner 

 of Monkton, the southern limits of Hinesburg and Charlotte, finally uniting with Lake Champlain in 

 Ferrisburg. Until we reach some mills east of the village of North Ferrisburg, in ascending the stream, 

 this creek seems to have been so sluggish as to have merely cut a channel for itself through the clays. At 

 the mills it has formed four terraces on the north side, and then upon the south side, for here it emerges 

 from a somewhat rocky bed. In Charlotte, where the current is swifter, we saw three terraces on each side 

 of a narrow valley. The valley grows wider in Hinesburg, and in the southeast part of the town the 

 meadow is at least a mile in diameter, and of an elliptical shape. In North Starksboro, near the source of the 

 creek, there is a high terrace, No. 4, of great length. It is succeeded southerly by a wide meadow. A 

 tributary of Lewis Creek, from the corner of Huntington, has accumulated some interesting terraces. The 

 stream descends a valley crossing a mountain range, and at its debouchure has deposited a succession of latero- 

 deltn terraces, which project out into the plain. They are composed of sand, and from their height and 

 projection arc unusually conspicuous. Upon the south side of the stream at its debouchure, there are two 

 terraces, Nos. 1 and 4. The south side of No. 4 supports two smaller terraces belonging to the same stream. 

 On the north side there are five terraces. The highest terraces follow up this stream in the narrow valley, 



