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years previous to the defection of the late Superintendent, and subse- 
quently found unreduced. In this, as in all his other labors, his efforts 
were marked by ability and success. 
He died, as he had lived, a Christian and a philosopher, resigned to the 
will of God, and in full peace of mind. B. A. G. 
Masor Epwarv B. Hunt.—The death of Major Hunt of the U.S. 
Topographical Engineers, by an unhappy accident while in discharge of 
his duties, has occasioned universal regret and sadness wherever this 
gifted and excellent officer was known. To science his loss is great. In 
the very prime of life and power, he had already added many important 
contributions to our stock of physical knowledge, and at the time of his 
death had been engaged for many months in elaborating his novel ideas 
upon the subject of Molecular Physics, some outlines of which he had 
already presented at one of the Sessions of the Connecticut Academy of 
‘ts and Sciences in the Spring of this year. 
Major Hunt was appointed a cadet in the U.S. Military Academy at 
West Point, from New York, in 1841, and was graduated in July, 1845, 
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below to ascertain what the difficulty was, and there was suffocated ; 
the irrespirable gases ; he succeeded in partly ascending to the companion 
ind; but at the same instant exhaustion caused him to fall into the 
hold where he lay with his face in a pool of water. One of the men de- 
scended instantly to his relief, but succeeded only in raising his head out 
ceeded in securing a rope to the fallen officer, but, sad to relate, in the 
fastening gave way, and he fell heavily a second 
, concussion of the brain. He was not 
down water, the atmosphere was so far 
le to go into the hold, and it was some 
