208 Connecticut River Valley. 
Otter Creek, on the west side of the dividing summit, rise the sour- 
ces of the Battenkill and Hoosack, emptying into the Hudson, and 
lower down, the heads of Housatonick river, which runs south into 
Long Island Sound. 
Boundaries. —The west side of the Connecticut river valley, is bake 
ly bounded by the summits of the green woods, in Connecticut and Mas- 
sachusetts, being the same range of Highlands, which, under the name 
of Green Mountains, forms the boundary in Vermont. About the forty 
fourth degree of north latitude, the Green Mountains divide and pro- 
ceed northerly in two ranges. ‘The eastern and less elevated range, 
which at the wide spread sources of White river is forty miles from 
the Connecticut, curves around the heads of that tributary, to within 
nine miles, at Newbury. Its continuity being unbroken, the eastern 
range forms the dividing summit of the waters flowing into Connec- 
ticut river on one side, and lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence on 
the other. ‘The western and more elevated division of the Green 
mountains, with peaks and ridges four thousand feet high, alternately 
descends and rises, first to afford a passage to the Onion river; then 
for the La Moile; and again for the Misisque. ‘The principal moun- 
- tains in the dividing summit on the east side of the Connecticut, are 
the White Mountains, and the grand Monadnok, both in New Hamp- 
shire. 
Mount Washington, in the former range, is six thousand two hundred 
and fifty feet above the level of the sea, and is the highest land be- 
iween the Atlantic Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. The most ele- 
vated ground, lying wholly within the valley, is Ascutney mountain, at 
Windsor, Vt. which is three thousand feet high. Above the north 
line of Connecticut, the best and least elevated thoroughfares across 
the dividing summits, both east and west, rise from eight hundred 
to one thousand feet above the level of the sea. 
Face of the country.—To the eye of the traveller passing along 
the banks of Connecticut river, plains and meadows appear to occu- 
py a large proportion of the valley. The nearest range of hills, es- 
pecially north of Greenfield, Ms. conceals the more distant ranges. 
But plains and meadows possess, comparatively a small part of the 
region which is drained through Connecticut river. Whether pro- 
ceeding to the east or west, hill is found rising above hill, and valley 
formed beyond valley, each contributing to supply and enlarge the. 
waters of the Connecticut, 
