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54  Juvenile Letters.

LETTER XX.

From the SAME to the SAME.
Burlington.

Dear Caroline,

We travelled all day yeſterday, and moſt of this day, on Onion river; and have seen little elſe than trees and mountains. Till you draw near the lake, the river is all the way hemmed in with very high mountains; so that you can neither see the sun rise nor set. Papa forded the river a second time, where it was deeper than at the former place; while I was carried over in a canoe. Onion river is a rapid stream, in which there are several curious falls. Twice we crossed it on bridges, where nature has forced the whole stream through a narrow strait, between two high ledges of rocks.
 
Burlington is pleasantly situated. The new College commands an extensive and delightful prospect. Where I now write, the great Lake Champlain is rolling almost under my window. Here it is fifteen or twenty miles wide, lined with


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With mountains on the opposite shore, whose summits seem to touch the very clouds. We intended to sail down to Montreal, but can find no vessel to carry us. 

In Williams' History of Vermont, and in Morse's Univerſal Geography, you will see a particular account of a curious well, dug in this town some years ago, in which frogs were found, twenty five feet below the surface of the earth; which, though in a lifeless state, revived on being exposed to the air, and hopped about. A tree was also found, at the depth of forty-nine feet.

From this place to Middlebury is thirty-six miles, where there is another College. We propose going from thence to Bennington. If I write again, it will be Saratoga Springs. But I doubt whether you will be willing to follow me any further over these ragged mountains. Adieu.
SOPHRONIA BELLMONT.
Miſs Caroline Courtland

LETTER

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