The first important industry of the state was "rafting" lumber from Vermont through Lake Champlain and the Richelieu and St Lawrence rivers to Quebec. Burlington became a great lumber market for a trade moving in the direction of Boston after the Richelieu river was blocked to navigation and railway transportation began, and in 1882 Burlington was the third lumber centre in the United States. [Please select]
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This affair, together with my rafting experiment, had[Pg 127] rendered me somewhat notorious. [Please select]
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Then he worked all day fixing things in bundles, and getting all ready to quit rafting. [Please select]
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