THE

NATURAL AND CIVIL

HISTORY

VERMONT.

BY SAMUEL WILLIAMS, LL. D.
MEMBER OF THE METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY IN GERMANY, OF THE
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN PHILADELPHIA, AND OF THE
ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES IN MASSACHUSETTS.

THE SECOND

IN TWO VOLUMES,

VOLUME I;

EDITION, CORRECTED AND

MUCH ENLARGED.

BURLINGTON, VT.

PRINTED BY SAMUEL MILLS.

SOLD AT HIS BOOKSTORE IN BURLINGTON, BY MILLS AND WHITE,
MIDDLEBURY, ISAIAH THOMAS, JUN. WORCESTER, THOMAS
AND ANDREWS, BOSTON, THOMAS AND WHIPPLE AND
S. SAWYER AND CO. NEWBURYPORT,

DISTRICT OF VERMONT, to wit.

BE it remembered, that on the twenty fifth day of Febru ary, in the thirty third year of the Independence of the United States of America, Samuel Mills of Burlington in (L. S.) faid District, hath deposited in this Office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

"The Natural and Civil History of Vermont. By Samuel Williams, LL. D. Member of the Meteorological Society in Germany, of the "Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, and of the academy of arts and Sciences in Massachusetts. In two Volumes. Volume I. The second edition, corrected and much enlarged."

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,"

A true Copy of Record,

CEPH AS SMITH, Jun.

Clerk of the District of Vermont.

CEPHAS SMITH, Jun. Clerk.

LENOX LIBRAR

NEW YORK

TO THE CITIZENS OF THE STATE OF

VERMONT,

THE FOLLOWING OBSERVATIONS

ON THEIR

NATURAL AND CIVIL

HISTORY,

ARE HUMBLY INSCRIBED ;

AS A TESTIMONY OF RESPECT FOR THEIR
MANY VIRTUES,

AS AN ATTEMPT TO PROMOTE

A MORE PARTICULAR ACQUAINTANCE
WITH THEIR OWN AFFAIRS,

AND WITH THE MOST ARDENT WISHES FOR