Green Mountains

a considerable mountain range commencing in Hartford co. Conn., and extending N. through Ma achusetts and Vermont into Lower Canada. a about 240 miles. heir greatest elevation is in Vermont, where Mount Mans field, or North Peak, rises to a height of 4,889 feet. The slopes are covered on the disappearance of the snow in spring with fine pastures of rich green gra , which may have given to the mountains their name, though this is commonly referred to the growth of evergreen forest trees, as the hemlock, balsam, fir, spruce, pine, cedar, etc., which abound upon the poorest land and along the margin of the streams, Green Mountain State, a popular name for the State of Vermont, from its being cro ed by the Green Mountains.