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CONNECTICUT. 



especially upon the Connecticut. Thei-e are chalybeate springs at Stafford, which are tne 

 most celebrated in New England. The mica-slate quarries furnish admirable flagging stones. 



10. Face of the Country. The surface of this State is diversified ; there are few level 

 tracts, and no very high mountains ; hills of moderate size are scattered everywhere. The 

 variety of aspect is striking ; at the base of a rugged granitic ridge, a smooth, fertile plan is 

 often spread out ; the craggy cliffs sometimes approach the edge of a stream, which is perhaps 

 bordered on one side by a beautiful alluvial tract, and this alluvion is again bounded by a ridge 

 of mountains in the distance. 



1. Divisions. 

 cities is 120. 



Counties. 



Windham, . 



Connecticut is 



POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, 

 divided into eidit counties. 



The number of tours and 



Countij Towns. 



Brooklyn. 

 New London. 

 Norwich. 

 Tolland. 

 Hartford. 

 New Haven. 



Comities. 



]Midd!esex, 

 Litchfield, 

 Fairfield, 



Count'i Tnuns, 



Middletown. 

 Haddam. 

 Litchfield. 

 Fairfield. 

 Danbury. 



length SO miles 

 through 



New London, 



Tolland, . 

 Hartford, 

 New Haven, 



2. Canals and Railroads. The Farmington Canal crosses the State from New Haven to 

 Westfield in INIassachusctts, and extends to Northampton on the Connecticut, making its whole 



It joins the sea by a large basin, at New Haven, and the first part of it passes 

 a level country, but toward tha norlli the surface grows uneven, and considerable 

 lockage is required. Extensive improvements have been made at Enfield Falls, on the Con- 

 necticut, by a company whose object is to remove the obstacles, and render the river navigable 

 for boats and steamboats as far as White River in Vermont. The Stonington railroad termi- 

 nates at Stonington Harbor within this State. The Norwich and Worcester railroad, extends 

 to Worcester in Massachusetts, 60 miles, thus forming a second line of railroad between the 

 Sound and Boston. The New Haven and Hartford railroad between those two cities is 40 

 miles long, and it is proposed to continue it to Springfield in Massachusetts. 



3. Cities and Towns. The scat of government- is divided between the cities of Hartford 

 and New Llaven. The city of Hartford is seated upon the Connecticut, a little north of the 



centre of the State, at the head of 



sloop navigation, and is surrounded 

 by a fertile and beautiful country. 

 The town is substantially built, 

 and enjoys a flourishing trade witli 

 Boston, New York, the West In- 

 dies, and other places. Great 

 quantities of lumber and other pro- 

 ductions are received here from 

 New Hampshire, Vermont, and 

 Massachusetts, by way of the ri\ er. 

 Its manufactuies are various, and 

 their annual value is $ 1,000,000. 

 The city contains a State-house, 

 city hall, a college, a deaf and 

 dumb asylum, a retreat for the 

 insane, a museum, an arsenal, 

 numerous churches, and several 

 banks. Among the public edifices, 

 the Episcopal church deserves 

 notice for its architectural beauty. 

 This is a plain Gothic building, and is the more worthy of commendation as few examples of 

 good taste in church architecture are found in the country. The Retreat for the Insane has 

 enjoyed the superintendence of a man of distinguished genius and philanthropy, and has justly 

 acquired the highest reputation. In the south part of the city is an oak tree, which is venerable 



M distant view of Hartford. 



for its ago, 



and inlPre-itrni; o:i a^cnimf nf iis connexion with tlie history of ancient times. 



