In the Cenfus taken in 1800, the numbers were these : Ot fixteen & under twen- Of twenty fix and under Offorty five and upwards, Under ten years of age. Of ten and under fixteen. Ot iixteen & under twen- families. Of 26 and under 45 in to 10 to 16 1 to 26 99420|12046 132421 16544 8076|128272111366! 12606152871 7049'557 to 45 145&cllto Io Ito 16 1 to 26 lto 45 145&cl TOTAL 151,465. ADDITIONAL NOTES. SINCE the publication of the firft volume, the theoretic estima. tion of the altitude of the White Mountains, mentioned vol. I. p. 28th and 29th, has been examined by barometrical obfervations; of which, Mr. N. Bowditch, an able mathematician of Salem, Maffachusetts, has favored me with the following account : "The juftness of your remarks relative to the height of the White Hills, in your hiftory of Vermont, has been corroborated by fome late baromet rical obfervations. -The obfervations were made by a party confifting of Dr. Cutler, profeffor Peck, and feveral other perfons befides myself. 'did not afcend to the fummit of the highest peak, but Dr. Cutler and 'profeffor Peck did; and on the 28th of July, 1804, at two P. M. they 'found the Barometer to ftand at 23 in. 39 inches, and Farenheit's • Thermometer at 54 degrees. At the fame time at the to Brof the moun'tain, at Meffervy's houfe, the Barometer stood at 29, in. 13, and the Ther'mometer at 86. At Salem and Bofton, 20 or 30 feet above the level of the fea, the Barometer at that time stood at 30 in. 10; Thermometer at 82. On the 27th of July, 1805, at 8 A. M. the Barometer at Meffervy's ftood at 29 in. 13, and the Thermometer at 86. In Salem at the fame time the Barometer flood at 30 in. 02, and the Thermometer at 68. From a comparison of the obfervations at Meffervy's with thofe at Salem ' and Boston, I find that the former place was elevated about 164 fathoms ' above the level of the fea. And by the comparison of the obfervations at the top of the mountain with that at Meffervy's, I find that the height a 'bove Meffervy's was about 1026 fathoms. So that the whole height above the level of the fea was about 1190 fathoms, or but little more than feven thousand feet. On the whole we may conclude that the highest point of the White Hills, is in round numbers not far from Seven thousand feet above the level of the fea." Letter of May 30, 1808. In Vol. I. p. 462, 1. 22, the following remark respecting Dr. Franklin fhould have been inferted. But among all their Philofophical writers, it was in Franklin that the genius of science role to the greatest height, and appeared with the brighteft luftre. Trained up to the labors and profeffion of a Printer, and without the advantages of education or wealth, this man by his difcoveries in electricity, attained an eminent rank among the improvers of fcience; and entailed a durable reputation both on himself, and on his country. Ia no philofophical difcovery had the human mind acted with greater energy and boldness, than when he conceived the idea of gaining accels to the treasures, and giving a direction to the thunderbolts of heaven. Daring in defign, he was accurate and fuccefsful in the grand experiment: And the year 1752 will be long remembered in the annals of fcience, as the time when the lightning was firft drawn down from the heavens by the moft fimple of all contrivances, by Franklin's Kite at Philadelphia. In Vol. II, p. 37, an account is given of the capture of Ticonderoga by colonel Ethan Allen. The following is his account of that affair: "The first fyftematical and bloody attempt at Lexington, to enaflve America, thoroughly electrified my mind, and fully determined me to take a part with my country. And while I was withing for an opportunity to fignalize myself in its behalf, directions were privately fent to me from the then colony, now ftate of Connecticut, to raise the Green Mountain Boys, and if poffible with them to furprise and take the fortrefs of Ticonderoga. This enterprife I cheerfully undertook; and after first guarding all the fev eral paffes that lead thither, to cut off all intelligence between the garrifon and the country, made a forced march from Bennington, and arrived at the lake oppofite Ticonderoga, on the evening of the ninth day of May, 1775, with two hundred and thity valliant Green Mountain Boys; and i was with the utmost difficulty that I procured boats to cross the lake. However I landed eighty three men near the garrifon, and sent the boats back for the rear guard commanded by Colonel Seth Warner; but the day began to dawn, and I found myfelf neceffitated to attack the fort, before the rear could cross the lake; and as it was viewed hazardous, İ harrangued the officers and foldiers in the manner following: "Friends and fellow foldiers. You have for a number of years past been a fcourge and terror to arbitrary powers. Your valor has been famed abroad, and acknowledged, as appears by the advice and orders to me from the general affembly of Connecticut, to surprise and take the garrifon now before us. I now propose to advance before you, and in perlon con. duct you through the wicket gate; for we muft this morning either quit ⚫ our pretensions to valor, or poffefs ourfelves of this fortrefs in a few ininutes; and much as it is a defperate attempt, which none but the braveft of men are undertake, I do not urge it on any contrary to his will. You that will undertake voluntarily, poife your firelock." The men being at this time drawn up in three ranks each poifed his firelock. I ordered them to face to the right; and at the bead of the centre file marched them immediately to the wicket gate aforefaid, where I found a fentry pofted, who inftantly fnapped his fufee at me. I ran immediately towards him, and he retreated through the covered way into the parade within the garrifon, gave a halloo, and ran under a bomb proof. My party who followed me into the fort, I formed on the parade in fuch a manner, as to face the barracks which faced each other. The garrifon being asleep except the fentries, we gave three huzzas, which greatly furprifed them. One of the fentries made a pafs at one of my officers with a charged bayonet, and flightly wounded him. My first thought was to kill him with my fword, but in an inftant I altered the defign and fury of the blow to a flight cut on the fide of the head; upon which he dropped his gun and afked quarters, which I readily granted him; and demanded the place where the commanding officer kept. He fhewed me a pair of ftairs in the front of the garrifon, which led up to a second story in faid barracks, to which I immediately repaired, and ordered the commander, captain Delaplace to come forth inftantly, or I would facrifice the whole garrifon : At which time the captain came immediately to the door with his breeches in his hand, when I ordered him to deliver to me the fort inftantly; he asked me by what authority I demanded it. I anfwered him," Inthe name of the great Jehovah, and the Continental Congrefs." The authority of Congrefs being very little known at that time, he began to fpeak again, but I interrupted him, and with my drawn fword near his head again demanded an immediate furrender of the garrifon; with which he then complied, and ordered his men to be forthwith paraded without arms, as he had given up the garrifon. In the mean time fome of my officers had given orders, and in confequence thereof, fundry of the barrack doors were beat down, and about one third of the garrifon imprisoned, which confified of faid commander, a lieutenant Feltham, a conductor of artillery, a gunner, two fergeants, and forty four rank and file; about one hundred pieces of cannon, one thirteen inch mortar, and a number of fwivels. This furprife was carried into execution in the grey of the mor ning of the tenth of May, 1775. The fun feemed to rife that morning with a fuperior luftre; and Ticonderoga and its dependencies fmiled on Ats conquerors, who toffed about the flowing bowl, and wifhed fuccefs to Congrefs, and the liberty and freedom of America. Happy it was for me at that time, that the future pages of the book of fate, which afterwards unfolded a miferable scene of two years and cight months imprisonment, were hid from my view." Allen's Narative, p. 14-25. A. Addre's to prefident Adams, 281. Answer, 287. To prefident Jefferson, Agriculture 353 Profits of, 353 The most neceffary and useful profel- Allen fra negociates with the British, 206, 207. 211. Amendments to the Federal Conftitution propofed, 285. 298, 325. 390. Arnold colonel, joins the expedition against Ticonderoga, 35. Difputes d Arts and Sciences, their wility, 387. Literary inftitutions and establish. B. – Banks, petitioned for, 328. Eftablished, 348. Beadle colonel, abandons his command and troops at the Cedars, 71. Bigelow major, covers the retreat from Canada, 77. British fentiments and measures at the end of the first campaign, 62. Gea- 210. 111. Invefts Burgoyne general, appointed to the command of the troops in Canada, 95. C. Canadians join the American troops, 44. Carleton general, endeavors to engage the Canadians and Indians against the Chatham lord, his fpeech on the Indian barbarities, 442. Chittenden governor, writes to Congrefs against their refolutions, 194. College at Middlebury, established by act of the legislature, 303, 304. State Commerce, 365. Congrefs, fend a body of troops to Canada, 42. Refolves refpecting the Conftitution of Vermont, 396, 397. Controverfy between the provinces of Malachusetts and New Hampshire, Conventions of the people, 163, 164. 167, 168. Bounties and Courts, 402. Incorporated, 465-477. |