set up into it. An-
other called Ward's Creek, also rises in Bridport, and runs through
a -corner of Addison and empties into the lake about a mile south of
Crown Point, and another called Hospital Creek empties into the
lake a short distance north of Chimney Point. The quantity of
water in these depends on the height of the water in the lake.
These sluggish streams afford water for cattle in their neighborhood,
through the summer, except in the driest seasons.
Lemon Fair rises in Orwell and runs through the eastern part of
Shoreham, southeast part of Bridport, and northwest part of Corn-
wall, and empties into Otter Creek in Weybridge. In Shoreham
there is a considerable water power on this stream, but below that it
is very sluggish, and its quantity of water depends much on the
height ofthe water in Otter Creek, in the spring aad other freshets.
10 BISTORT OF ADDISON COUNTY.
On the borders of this creek are also extensive flat lands, which
have no superior for the production of grass.
On the borders of Otter Creek are also extensive flats, vrhich in
the spring and other high freshets are overflowed by the waters of
the creek. A part of the tract, especially in Cornwall and Whiting
on the west side, and Middlebury and Salisbury on the east side, is
so low as to be called a swamp, and, except small patches called
islands, consists of vegetable substances to the depth, in some places,
of ten feet. These lands when cleared and thoroughly drained be-
come very productive.
The natural growth timber on the fiat lands last mentioned, was
pine, cedar, tamarack, soft maple, black ash