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Obituary of Prof. Z. Thompson. 



curing ore so great, that other regions which now seem very 

 remote from a market will "be able to compete with the most 

 favored iron-producing districts of England. 



Practically, the views which have been presented above are of 

 importance, as leading us to expect large and valuable deposits 

 of the ores of iron wherever the azoic rocks are found to exist 

 over any considerable surface. Thus it may safely be predicted 

 that important discoveries of ore will be made, in the now almost 

 unexplored regions of British America, which are covered by 

 rocks of the azoic period. Indeed, large beds of ore have already 

 been found in Canada, which are, in character and position, anal- 

 ogous to those of Northern New York. 



Art. VII. — Obituary of Professor Zadoc Thompson* 



Professor Zadoc Thompson, died at Burlington on the 19th 

 day of January, 1856, of ossification of the heart. He was born 

 in Bridgewater, Windsor County, Vermont ; in the year 1796, 

 and, at the time of his death, must have been in the sixtieth 

 year of his age. His early life was a continual struggle with 

 poverty, and his education was acquired while successfully com- 

 batting the evils of pecuniary embarrassment. At the advanced 

 age of twenty-seven years he was graduated at the University of 

 Vermont, having for his classmate in 1823, the Hon. Frederick 

 H. Allen, an eminent lawyer now living in Boston, and War- 

 ren Hoxie, of Westford, Vermont. Within a twelve-month 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 earliest settlement to the close 

 of the year 1832," pp. 252. In the year 1832, he was editor of 7 

 and principal contributor to, the "Green Mountain Kepository," 

 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 Et. Kev. Bishop Hopkins, 

 in 1836. 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 absence of 

 the rector ; but his feeble health prevented his assuming the ac- 

 tive and onerous labors of a parish. 



From the time of the publication of the books above men- 

 tioned, he had contemplated a larger and more comprehensive 



* Communicated to the Franklin (Vt.) County Journal, and sent to this Journal 

 by the author, George F. Houghton, Esq. 



