Note A — Chapter I · GEOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE AND SETTLEMENT.

In 1763, Rev. Samuel Peters, the first clergyman who paid a visit to the thirty thousand settlers in that country, in the presence of a number of landed proprietors, performed the ceremony of giving a new name to the province, “on the top of a rock standing on a high mountain, then named Pisgah, because it provided the company a clear sight of Lake Champlain to the west, and of the Connecticut River to the east, and which overlooked all the trees and hills in the vast wilderness at the north and south,” ... which new name is “Verd Mont,” in token that her mountains and hills shall ever be green and never die. He then poured the spirits about him and cast the bottle at the rock. The ceremony being over, the company descended Mount Pisgah and took refreshments in a log house, kept by Captain Otley, where they spent the night with great pleasure.—Hist. Mag.