Vermont' (named from the French Monts Verts or Verts Monts, i.e., "Green Mountains," the principal mountain-range in the state), the northwesternmost of the New England states of the American Union, bounded N. by the Canadian province of Quebec, E. by New Hampshire, the W. bank of the Connecticut River being the boundary line, S. by Massachusetts, and W. by New York, Lake Champlain and Poultney River dividing it from New York in part. In Lake Champlain there lie within the limits of this state the islands of North and South Hero, Isle La Motte, Hog, Wood, Butler's, Potter's, Providence, Straw, Gull, Fishbladder, Savage, and other islands, the most important of which, with a peninsula which extends into the lake from Canada, constitute the county of Grand Isle. The state is 150 miles long, from 35 to 85 miles wide, and has an area of 9565 square miles (land area, 9135 square miles), or 5,846,400 acres...
The Counties number 14, as follows: Addison, Bennington, Caledonia, Chittenden, Essex, Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille, Orleans, Orange, Rutland, Washington, Windham, and Windsor. The principal cities and towns (census of 1890) are Burlington, on Lake Champlain (pop. 14,590); Montpelier, the capital (4160); Rutland (11,760), Brattleborough (6862), Barre (6812), Bennington (6391), Colchester (5143), St. Albans (7771), St. Johnsbury (6567), Rockingham (4579), and Vergennes (1773). The only incorporated cities are Burlington and Vergennes...
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