660 State Board of Agriculture, &c. 



He valued the hematite ores on the west side of the 

 mountain as being among the best iron ores on the conti- 

 nent, and after an examination of different beds, extending 

 from Bennington to Bristol, lie purchased a right in the 

 Train ore bed in Tinmouth, and had it opened and put in 

 working order, just at the close of his life, this being some 

 of his last work in this State. 



His love for the beautiful in nature made him delighted 

 with Vermont scenery, and inuch of the heated term of 

 each year was spent in the State, either at Strafford or Tyson 

 Furnace. He visited Europe often wheii in health, and the 

 improvements there in the arts and sciences were noted and 

 brought back with him for the benefit of the land of his 

 birth, and Vermont obtained her full share of these benefits. 

 One of the first hot-blasts for blowing a furnace in this 

 country was put in to the furnace at Tyson, having been 

 cast from patterns modeled from diagrams procured by him 

 in England. 



His religion was strictly of the Friend Quaker stamp, and 

 in his dealings and business relations with the world there 

 was a conservative honesty that would be refreshing to wit- 

 ness now^ an honesty that young America will never be 

 likely to behold. , 



