BURLINGTON

a dty in Vermont, United States, and capital of Chittenden county, situated on a bay, to which it gives name, on the s. side of the entrance of Onion River into Lake Cham plain, 100 miles 8. of Montreal Pop. in 1870, 14,3S7. Burlington is the most considerable commercial town in Vermont. Its trade is principally with the city of New York, with which it has a water communication by means of Lake Cham plain, the Cham plain Canal, and the river Hudson. — ^The University of Vermont was incorporated and established at Burlington in 1791, but it did not come into operation till 1800. It is finely situated on the £. side of the villi^e, 1 mile distant from Lake Cham plain, on ground elevated 245 feet above the surface of the water, and oommuids an extensive and delightful prospect, embracing a view of the lake, with the high mountains beyond on the w., and the Green Mountains on the E. A large college edifice of brick, which was completed in 1801, was consumed by fire in 1824; since which time tlu«e brick edifices have been erected, two of them containing rooms for students, the other containing a chapel and other public rooms. The university po e es considerable endowments, consisting chiefly of lands; but the number of students has never been large. BURMAH. See Bibmah (British), and Bibman Empibe.