Much of the state is covered in mountains and forests. In the center of the state, the most famous range is the Green Mountains. Formed over million years ago, the rocks are thought to be some of the oldest in the world. The rugged Northeast Highlands in the, well, northeastern part of the state and known for granite peaks divided by streams. Running north to south in the eastern part of the state, the Vermont Piedmont is the biggest geographic region. This hilly area includes the fertile Connecticut River Valley.
Lots of lakes dot the Piedmont in the north. The Taconic Mountains rise in southwestern Vermont, with high peaks, streams, and lakes. The Vermont Valley is a narrow area in the western part of the state, between the Taconic and the Green Mountains.
In the summer, breezes that blow off the lake make the air in the fertile farming area cooler; in winter, the lake absorbs heat and warms the region.
Other common trees include yellow birch, pine, spruce, and cedar. The Green Mountain State is also known for its wildflowers, including wild bleeding heart, bulbous buttercup, pink fairies, and sweet white violet. Irvine, Calif. Shearer, Benjamin F. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 3 Sub edition, Presents information about Vermont's people, geography, history, landmarks, natural resources, government, state capitol, towns and cities, and more.
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The word is documented as early as and figures prominently in the epic Song of Roland : "Roland reguardet es munz e es lariz" Roland scans the mountains and the hills. However, by the s, mont had clearly lost out to montagne. This has remained true to this day. Except for writing poetry and geographic naming such as Outremont we seldom call upon mont in modem French.
Even in , mont was archaic. However, its use in place naming was well established and carried an aura of antiquity. In modem French, one would say in a normal enunciation: les monts verts.
However the creation of Young is probably not inspired by modern French, even the modern French of Above all, grammatically speaking, it is not part of a sentence. The word answers the special rules of geographical naming. For examples: Beaumont, Belmont or, more to the point, Rougemont.
In some cases, one or more letters such as the final consonant may disappear. The spelling ver for vert is well documented. Vermont was almost named New Connecticut.
Instead, like Maine, the Green Mountain State bears a decidedly Gallic name not to underline the French presence in those parts once claimed by Louis XIV or XV but because English minds in their appropriation of the world at least the Atlantic World sometimes resorted to historical antecedents stamped with the fleur-de-lys. In the case of Maine, no one has been able to explain why the region bears the name of a French province. Because of the francophilia of Young or Ethan Allen?
For whatever reason. It matters little to us Franco-Vermonters. It is enough that the quirks of history announced our coming to this state and the significant contribution which we have made to its welfare and progress.
The text is reproduced, with a brief introduction from Marilyn S. Blackwell, in A More Perfect Union. Vermont Becomes a State , Michael Sherman, ed. Montpelier Vermont Historical Society, The only extant copy of the broadside is housed in the municipal library of Providence, Rhode Island.
The petitioners refer to Young as a "worthy friend [ ] to whom we stand indebted for the very name of Vermont. The document is quoted on the back-cover of Vermont History , 4 October Thomas Young, of Philadelphia.
Much earlier, in , Ira Allen had observed that the state had "obtained its name from the French word Verdmont. Myers, Soon afterwards, several sources echoed the testimony of Allen. For example a London geography book dating from explains that "the people had for a long time no other name than Green Mountain Boys, which they Gallicised into Verdmont, and afterwards corrupted into the easier pronunciation of Vermont.
Willard - 14, maintains that "the name Verd Mont was applied by those who early visited it. The most outrageous exposition of the French colonial origin of the word Vermont was no doubt supplied by one Alexander B. Drysdale not only attributes the region's name to the French but identifies one Napoleon Grandison Pierre Radisson? Referring to his Napoleon Grandison as "Polie," Drysdale delights his audience with considerations such as these: "The woods in Polie's case had of course been there longer than he had but he had never noticed them before and began to examine them with interest, and, therefore, in the natural course of events and reasoning realized that they were green.
At this startling registry in his none too active cerebellum he exclaimed as any Frenchman would upon seeing green, 'Vert. Much later, according to Drysdale, Champlain "a debonair French noble, roue, egotist" came to Quebec and hired Grandison who led him to Lake Champlain.
After naming the lake after himself, "the Marquis of Champlain became aware that there were mountains around him and mumbled to himself in French, 'monts. A second edition is available: Mamaroneck: Harbor Hill Books, The word Vermont or other renderings do not appear in the official correspondence between the intendant or the governor of New France and the colonial authorities in Versailles and elsewhere in France. For a calendar of those documents see the appropriate annual Report of the Public Archives of Canada.
Consult also the Ordonnances, commissions, etc. The word is not to be found in the Voyages of Champlain, the documentation of the presence of the Carignan-Sallieres Regiment in the Richelieu-Champlain area notably the Livre de raison de Francois de Tapie de Monteil, capitaine au regiment de Poitou, the Vers burlesques sur Ie voyage de Monsieur de Courcelles [ De Salieres des choses qui se sont passees en Canada, les plus considerables depuis qu'il est arrive, , and Dollier de Casson's Histoire de Montreal , and various journals and reports of military officers from the Seven Years War such as the journal of Louis Antoine de Bougainville published in translation as Adventure in the Wilderness.
The word is also absent from the J esuits' Relations , their journals, and other documents which mention the Champlain Valley or the rest of the state, notably the Voyages of Louis Franquet and the various papers of de Lery, the King's Engineer in New France. However historians note no significant occupation until when Governor Wenworth made his first grant Bennington. The first map to show English settlements in present-day Vermont is a plan of Williamstown and Adams.
The plan was drawn by Nathaniel Dwight in November The range is labeled twice. The most southerly notation follows the spine of a clearly delineated mountain range up to the township of Ludlow. The second label in bigger type but otherwise identical , can be seen more to the west.
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