Excerpt from Vermont, the Green Mountain State, Vol. 4 During the summer of 1865 General Grant had occa sion to pass through northeastern Vermont and was greeted with enthusiasm at Island Pond. On january 18, 1865, Burlington voted to accept a city charter, and thus became Vermont's second city, seventy-seven years after Vergennes was incorporated and seventy-one years after its city machinery began to be operated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.