of Lake Champlain ; then southTvardly in the deepest chan-
nel of said lake till it intersects the -west line from the. northwest
corner of said Orwell ; then east to the bounds begun at ; which
territory of land shall be known by the name of the County of Ad-
dison; and the east line of said County of Addison shall be the
west line of the counties of Windsor and Orange, so far as they join."
The County by this act embraced the territory to the north line
of the State, so far east as to include a large part of the Counties of
Washington and Orleans. The town of Kingston, now Granville,
not included in the original boundaries, was set off from Orange
County to this, by act of the 19th of October, 1787. Theact es-
tablishing the County of Chittenden was passed on the 22d of Octo-
ber, 1787, making the north lino of this County the same as at
present, except that it embraced the town of Starksboro, which af-
terwards by the act of 1797 was included in this County. The
town of Warren, which was included in this County, by act of the
Legislature in 1829, was annexed to the County of Washington ;
and the town of Orwell, then in the County of Rutland, was, on
the 13th November, 1847, annexed to this County. These
constitute all the changes made in the territory of the County since
its first establishment, leaving in it the towns above enumerated.
The eastern part of the County extends over the first range of the
Green Mountains ; and five of the towns are