Identifier: newenglandhumani00john (find matches)
Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel New England -- History
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. To cut the roughblocks into such shapes and sizes as buyers desire, be-fore sending the marble away, saws are used whichconsist simply of long smooth strips of steel. Veryhard sand borne by a little stream of water is con-tinually supplied under the machine-moved saws asthey sway backward and forward. The sand rubsagainst the marble and does the cutting at the rate ofabout two and a half inches an hour. Sand and waterare also used for polishing. Marble is usually nearly white, but differs a gooddeal in delicate shades and markings. In the north-western part of the state beautiful variegated and blackmarbles are quarried. They are much harder than theRutland marble, and it costs more to shape and polishthem. There is very little level land in Vermont, and among Vermont Industries 315 the towns of the state are scarcely any which do notcontain some mountain or lofty hill from which a de-hghtful view can be obtained. The mountains arenearly all clothed with verdure from base to summit,
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Newbury beside the Connecticut and the name of the state, derived from tw^o Frenchwords, Verd Mont, which mean Green Mountain, isvery appropriate. The state abounds in lakes, ponds, and little rivers,and is one of the most attractive of the nations summerplaygrounds. - • ^ ? L ■ 1 1 ^^S^^idl^^^^^ll^^^^ ./■^: m_^ l^^l^v^ ^ UpB^^ll The Sheepscot River, a little east of the KennebecHistoric Maine AN early English visitor to the Maine coast wasCaptain Weymouth, who landed about the firstof June, 1605, halfway between the Penobscot andKennebec rivers, and explored the neighboring streams,harbors, and islands. The Indians brought many 316 Historic Maine 317 furs to the English ship to exchange for trinkets. Oneday they took several of the crew who were on shoreto where other Indians sat around some fires laughingand talking, while puffs of smoke rose from theirmouths. Probably the sailors had never seen anyone smoking before. Deerskins were spread for thewhite men to sit on, and a pip

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