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raphy and map of Canada for schools, which has passed through 

 several editions. 



Within a twelvemonth from his graduation he published at 

 Montpelier his " Gazetteer of Vermont " pp. 312 and, in 1833, 

 he published, at Burlington, his " History of Vermont from its 

 early settlement to the close of the year 1832" pp. 252. In the 

 year 1832, he was editor of and principal contributor to the " Green 

 Mountain Repository," a monthly _magazine ^published for about 

 a year in Burlington. After pursuing his study of theology and 

 occasionally teaching at the " Vermont Episcopal Institute " and 

 elsewhere, he was prepared for orders and was ordained to the 

 diaconate in the Protestant Episcopal Church by the Rt. Rev. 

 Bishop Hopkins, in J 836. He subsequently preached^in several 

 parishes in Northern Vermont and New York, and supplied the 

 pulpit at St. Paul's Church, Burlington, during the illness or ab- 

 sence of the Rector ; but his feeble health prevented his assuming 

 the active and onerous labors of a parish. 



From the time, he published his first almanac it was his inten- 

 tion to publish a complete history of the State, and for more 

 than twenty years he was engaged in collecting materials, and for 

 this purpose traveled on foot into^most of the towns tojaave per- 

 sonal interviews with the " oldest inhabitants," examine records, 

 Natural History Geography, &c. ; &c. and from 1838 to 1842 

 he was engaged in preparing from the mass of materials thus 

 collected his general History of Vermont. 



At this time, when he had expended all his little earnings in pre- 

 paring his work, he was so fortunate as to have his friend and 

 neighbor Mr. Chauncey Goodrich voluntarily offerjto furnish all 

 the material necessary, and publish his work, charging only the 

 usual cash prices, for paper and printing, /or all which he might 

 pay from sales of the book. This liberal offer enabled him to 

 publish, promptly, an edition of 5000 copies of his work of 656 

 closely printed, double column, octavo pages, using more than five 

 tons of printing paper, and although the expenditure was more 

 than $5000 to secure all the profits to himself. 



Our Legislature was not unmindful of the great service he had 

 rendered the State. When he issued his proposals for publish- 

 ing his Civil, Natural and Statistical History of Vermont, they 

 directed the Secretary of State to subscribe for onejiundred 



