Home › B › Burlington (City port of entry and mont)

Burlington (City port of entry and mont)

city, port of entry and mont and Rutland railroads; 40 miles N.

W. of Montpelier. It has a very large lake commerce and manufactories of lumber, cotton and woolen goods, and lake commerce and manufactories of W. of Montpelier. It has a very large The city is the seat of the State University of Vermont and of the State Agricultural and Medical Colleges; Bishop Burlington Law Libraries; a County Hopkins Hall; the Cathedral of the Imricultural and Medical Colleges; Bishop versity of Vermont and of the State Agthe Fletcher, University, Billings and Building, and a Young Court House; United States Government for its benevolent and educational insti- Association Hall. Burlington is noted Building, and a Young Men's Christian Hospital, Home for Aged Women, Home Association Hall.

Burlington is noted ing Men's Christian for Friendless Women, Home for Destitute Children, Adams Mission House, Louisa Howard Mission, Providence Orphan Asylum, Cancer Relief Association, Lake View Retreat, several sanitariums, BURMA the Vermont Episcopal Institute, St. Joseph's and St. Mary's Academies (Roman Catholic), and high and graded schools. The city was settled in 1773; was a garrisoned post during the War of 1812; and was incorporated in 1865.

Its material development has been largely due to its great lumbering industries. The famous Col. Ethan Allen is buried beneath a handsome monument in Greenmount Cemetery. Pop. (1910) 20,468; (1920) 22,779.

BURMA traversed by great mountain ranges branching off from those of northern India and running parallel to each other southward to the sea. Between these ranges and in the plains or valleys here situated the four great rivers of Burma - the Irrawaddy, its tributary the Chindwin, the Sittang, and the Salwen-flow in a southerly direction to the sea, watering the rich alluvial tracts of Lower Burma, and having at their mouths all the great seaports of the ( KYAILTEYO PAGODA, BURMA