TOPOGRAPHY AND SOIL 



with fine forests on the lower slopes and rocky and 

 covered with scrub oak and yellow pine towards the 

 summits. Many elevated areas probably never will 

 be of much agricultural value except for forestry, be- 

 cause of their inaccessibility and the shallowness of the 

 soil. On the mountains that are frequently burned 

 over there are often tracts of the native low blueberry 

 and the huckleberry, not perhaps regarded as a strictly 

 agricultural product, but one that certainly adds to the 

 income of the hill towns. 



The soil in general is what is known as glacial drift 

 or till. There is ample evidence of glacial action 

 throughout the county, in the polished ledges cut with 

 furrows, in the smooth boulders scattered everywhere, 

 in the steep-sided kettle holes, and especially in the uni- 

 versal mix-up of the soils. But no outcome of the 

 glacial forces adds more to the beauty of the country 

 than the numerous lakes. There are over a thousand 

 lakes in Connecticut, and of these Litchfield County has 

 the greatest surface, Bantam Lake, lying in the towns 

 of Litchfield and Morris, being the largest. In the 

 town of Salisbury lie the Twin Lakes, which, if they 

 had not built a barrier and divided themselves into 

 two lakes, would be almost as large as Bantam. In the 

 town of Warren is Lake Waramaug, in Kent are the 

 Spectacle Ponds, in Canaan and Norfolk is Lake Wan- 

 gum, and in Winchester is Highland Lake. The lakes 



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