Vermont Botanical and Bird Clubs 



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THOMPSON'S WILLOUGHBY LAKE GUIDE 



W. W. Eggleston 



Vermont naturalists as well as historians are immensely indebted 

 to Zadock Thompson. Graduates of the University of Vermont and 

 all other Vermonters have a right to be proud of his work. A sketch 

 of his life and work ought to be prepared. 



Brought up from boyhood on Thompson's Vermont History and 

 with some knowledge of his other publications I received a most agree- 

 able surprise recently in an old bookstore in New York when I found 

 his Northern Guide. The first edition was published in 1845, three 

 years after his History of Vermont. But it is with the second edition 

 of the Northern Guide (1854) that we are interested now because this 

 edition describes Willoughby Lake. The title page reads as follows: 



NORTHERN GUIDE 



LAKE GEORGE. 



LAKE CHAMPLAIN, 



Montreal and Quebec, 



GREEN AND WHITE MOUNTAINS, 



AND 



WILLOUGHBY LAKE, 



WITH 



Maps and Tables of Distances. 



By Z. THOMPSON, 

 Author of History and Gazetteer of Vermont. 



BURLINGTON: 

 Published by S. B. Nichols, 

 ' 1854. 



On pages 36 to 38 is the following: 



