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17 BPPnh mn p Stations. Feet. 63 are taken from the 'Seventh report of the 



l-.. ±$eech Hill Reservoir 594.589 A , , , , , r , T ,,>,,. 



18.. Mount Mansfield (chin) 4 389.080 Adirondack survey, by Mr. Verplanck Colvm. 



JjJ-- " " (nose) 4,056.390 No. 61 was not determined by levelling, but from 



S'Ei^ontTf TV* "~ o'flo 40 the mean of two months' observation with the 



-ii.. nidge south-east of Summit House 3,612.380 , 



22.. Hallway House 2 306.380 barometer. 



23.. Junction of Notch Road "*!!!"!lJttL8fiO E. C. PICKERING. 



24. .Bench near J. Houston's 955.050 . 



25.. Mansfield House, Stowe 720.270 



S"^mn 0( J iSt ° hu f ch ' Waterbury Centre 712.530 PROPOSED NEW TRADE OUTLET ON 



27..Killmgton Peak 4,220.870 



23.. Summit of the second ridge 3,546.310 THE BLACK SEA. 



29. . Rock, summit of the first ridge 3 3^5 480 m 



30.. Bench, rock near Manley's barn 2 097.610 ™he Russian government has very recently, 



31.. Bench, rock near R. Maxham's 1,812.720 savs Engineering, partially approved of a new 



£ HTe^h^ ^heme for doing away completely with com- 



34.. Congregational Church, Bridgewater. ....... ... 892.390 merce at Sebastopol, and diverting the stream of 



35.. Mount Tom (north peak) Woodstock.... i,35i!220 trade to Theodosia, at the eastern extremity of 



37.'. Little Killington th . P ?. ak) . !!"•".! .'."".."i'Jn 000 **** Crimea ' To achieve this *t & projected to 



38.. Base ot the town hall. Woodstock.............. 697.690 construct a railway, sonie eighty miles in length, 



39.. Pico... 3,935.000 from the Djanski station of the Lozova-Sebasto- 



5: .f ^£^:"::::::::;;;;;;;.;:;;;V;.fXw PGl Hne ' and build a regular port at the Theodosian 



42.. Camel's Hump V. ..... ... ...... .*4,'o77. 000 extremity. Of course, the building of the rail- 



^■'t?^ fc « ey '^ 3,163.000 way and port will be an expensive business, to 



44.. Whiteface Mountain 4 871 fi55 . . , 



45.. " « (spring) 2 81 958 say nothing of the inconvenience and loss incurred 



46 -- " " (brook, second crossing on ' by tne numerous merchants and trades - people, 



47 wnf^'i " ' " V 2,023.965 who will be compelled bon gre mal gre* to transfer 



" ^^^S^*!^ . ff rf!\ 5!*^^! ^T^* .^^T^f^ 0& i we their °P erations from Sevastopol to Theodosia. 



48. .Lake Placid .V. ............ .1863 715 But the Russian government never allows com- 



49.. Mount Marcy ..'.5,341248 merce to interfere with its military and naval 



51 .'.'Lake Tearo/t^Clo^ plans ; and certain hi g h authorities having advo- 



52 • " " " " (summit of notch). . . . . . . . 4, 355^313 cated the conversion of Sebastopol into a naval 



S^Mou^m 00 ^ 6 a',353.687 station, pure and simple, there is a probability 



ssiiMackenzieVo^^ that the rapidly increasing trade of the port will 



56.. Mount Skylight ........... ..^ .4 889 626 ^e summarily shifted to the other end of the 



58 Haystack 4,Wooo Crimea. Such a despotic transfer is very little 



59'.'.Bartieu(wesr s ^ relished by the business-people of Sebastopol, to 



60 . . st . Regis Moun tain .2 888 298 whom is really d ue the credit of having restored 



88* " ^°B^bJ^b 3,'809.ooo the place from a mass of ruins to a respectable 



63..RaqueUe Lake/'° Wer ^ 1.623.162 town, and who have no inclination to have to 



T . , . ' ' ' repeat the process amidst the broken relics of 



• 1 H-o 6 Jf ° f Mount Washington was determined Genoese, Turkish, and early Russian rule at Theo- 



m lboo by Captain Cram of the U. S. coast sur- dosia. Moreover, the port is a very inferior one 



vey. Nos 8 to 10 are from the carriage-road sur- compared with Sebastopol, being quite open to 



vey by Mr. R. & Howe. Nos. 11 to 17 were the sea; and although Chardin, when he visited 



levelled by Mr. J. J. Holbrook; and Nos. 18 to 26, the place two centuries ago, stated that there 



jy Mr. Hosea Doton, who started from the rail- were more than 4,000 houses and 80,000 people in 



way - station at Waterbury, and assumed the Theodosia, and 400 ships in the bay, it is not easy 



Height of the top of the sleepers at that point to to believe that it was a very commodious port for 



Ififtft? feCt ' N ° S * 27 t0 37 WCre determined in shipping. In ancient times Theodosia was called 



UJ08 by Mr. Doton, who ran a line of levels, Kaff a, and is reported by classic writers to have 



starting from White River Junction. The height shipped as much as 3,000,000 bushels of wheat in 



0| white River Junction was assumed to be one year, serving during the period in question as 



•»1 feet Nos. 38 to 41 were determined trigo- the 1 granary of Greece.' In later times the 



Dometrically from No. 27. No. 42 was lev- Genoese did a large trade here ; but the Turks 



eUed by Mr. -Charles Collins at the time of the knocked the place to pieces when they took it 



building of the Vermont central railroad ; and from the Genoese, the Russians again when they 



No. 43, by Messrs. H. F. Dunham and D. C. Bell, seized it from the Turks, and finally Hobart 



from a bench in Harland. The bench appears to Pacha bombarded it in 1878. The population is 



have been the summit of Garvin Hill. Nos. 44 to about 10,000 souls, housed in hovels amidst a vast 



