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Champlain, and for Montreal, Ogdensburg, and the West. 

 The general offices of the Rutland Railroad are here under 

 the management of the trustees, Mr. E. A. Birchard and 

 Hon. J. B.Page (Governor of Vermont), and directly under 

 the superintendence of Colonel George A. Merrill. 



This road has under its control the Vermont Valley, 

 ^Montreal and Plattsburg, and the Whitehall and Plattsburg 

 Railroads, and the Burlington Steamboat Company. The 

 ■workshops of the road are located here, and turn out 

 some of the best work in the country. 



At Rutland are the celebrated marble-quarries, which 

 are so extensive that it will pay to visit them. One of the 

 excavations is two hundred and fifty feet deep. On the 

 road to the quarries a very beautiful, cascade is seen, — the 

 Otter Creek Fall, — which will be found worthy of more 

 than a passing glance. 



The marble from the Rutland quarries is considered the 

 best produced in this country, and rivals in purity the 

 famous Italian. The superintendents of the quarries are 

 always polite and obliging to strangers, and williiig- to afford 

 any information in their power. At Rutland are many fine 

 residences, and several large hotels, but the past year the 

 place has suffered much from incendiary fires. Its popula- 

 tion is twelve thousand. 



Clarendon Springs is about four miles from Rutland, 

 Saratoga sixty-three. The trains stop here fifteen or 

 twenty minutes, then proceed to Burlington on Lake 

 Champlain, distant sixty-seven miles. 



Sutherland FaUs has also large marble-quarries, and the 

 same may be said of Pittsford, Brandon, and Middlebury. 

 Brandon is midway (sixteen miles) between Rutland and 

 Middlebury. It is interesting for its mineral productions. 

 Here are two limestone caverns, the larger of which con- 

 tains two apartments, each from sixteen to twenty feet 

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