BURLINGTON, city, port of entry and county-seat of Chittenden co., Vt.; on Lake Champlain, the head of the New York Barge Canal, and the Central Ver mont and Rutland railroads; 40 miles N. W. of Montpelier. It has a very large lake commerce and manufactories of lumber, cotton and woolen goods, and iron. The environment is agricultural. The city is the seat of the State Uni versity of Vermont and of the State Ag ricultural and Medical Colleges; Bishop Hopkins Hall; the Cathedral of the Im maculate Conception (Roman Catholic) ; the Fletcher, University, Billings and Burlington Law Libraries; a County Court House; United States Government Building, and a Young Men's Christian Association Hall. Burlington is noted for its benevolent and educational insti tutions, which include the Mary Fletcher Hospital, Home for Aged Women, Home for Friendless Women, Home for Desti tute Children, Adams Mission House, Louisa Howard Mission, Providence Or phan Asylum, Cancer Relief Association, Lake View Retreat, several sanitariums, the Vermont Episcopal Institute, St. Jo
seph's and St. Mary's Academies (Ro man Catholic), and high and graded schools. The city was settled in 1773; was a garrisoned post during the War of 1812; and was incorporated in 1865. Its material development has been largely due to its great lumbering in dustries. The famous Col. Ethan Allen is buried boneath a handsome monument in Greenmount Cemetery. Pop. (1910) 20,468; (1920) 22,779.
traversed by great mountain ranges branching off from those of northern In dia and running parallel to each other southward to the sea. Between these ranges and in the plains or valleys here situated the four great rivers of Burma —the Irrawaddy, its tributary the Chind win, the Sittang, and the Salwen--flow in a southerly direction to the sea, watering the rich alluvial tracts of Lower Burma, and having at their mouths all the great seaports of the