The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-12-11
TO THE PEOPLE OF VERMONT.

SINCE the publication Of the Vermont Gazetteer in 1924
the undersigned has constantly had in contemplation, the
preparation Off new work embracing not only the 6azrt
Ger but the natural and civil history of the State tOpe
or with such statistical tables he should think would be
generally useful for reference lie would now inform the
public that he has such work in progress and that it will
probably he published in the course Ol the next year, M
less provision is made al the next session Of the lgsla
for Geological survey of the State, in which case hc
may think bcso defer the publication long enough Ia
embrace the result of that survey and thus place inc
diutcly, within the reach OF nl The work Will be ar
arranged under three general heads each of which will
stilulc about third of the whole.
!. The Natural history. In this part, on addition Ia
the geographical descriptions climate mincraogy botany
Ac. will be given scientific and popular account Of onI
native quarupcds, birds, reptiles and fishes, and OF ON
forest trees accompanied IN most cases by drawings Ia
the preparation Of this part Of the work he has already
devoted share of his time for several years
2. the history. This part, in addition to the His
tory published by the Undersigned in 1888, corrected and
brought down to the present time, will contain history
OF our College, Universities and Medical Institutions ac-
compane in tabular form by the names OF the malnbers
of the respective Corporations, Faculties &c with the
times Of coming in and going out of office; and also
Catalogue of all who received degrees at cnch Institution
from their going into operation down to the present time
Ii will also contain complete history of MI the Steam
l'oats, which has been on lake Champain and other
interesting items to numerous tn he mentioned here
8. The Gazetteer. This part will be similar the
Gazetteer by the undersigned in ls2 with corrections
and additions and brought down to the time Ofpuication
II will also embrace the result of the census now taking
all the statistics required in connection with it.
The New mnp To be embraced in the work. will be
nearly three times the size of that in the old Gazetteer
will he engraved in the best manner upon steel and much
pains being taken render it minute aud
rate than any map of the State at present extent. The
other engravngs, consisting ot plans, OF villages, views
buildings representations Of animals dc. expected to
exceed two hundred The whole work will constitute Il
volume OF more than 500 large pages, printed in
double columns on small type and paper Of the best quail
hy,
The undersigned is fully aware of the rcpugnancc which
generally exists to subscriptions for hooks of kind
and of the numerous mpoSOnS upon the public by which
could he prepared and published with no more than
binary labor aud expense, would presume to ask
his fellow citizens to subscribe. But considering the great
labor and expense of preparing his in addition the
cost of cnerayngS and Publishing and also that it is
State W0rk in which every citizen has interest; and
considering, moreover his inability the expense
Oi publishing without prev ius patronage
he has concluded To appeal to the confidence aud parOt-
ism nj his fellow c2ms by sending papers into the
several towns for the purpose O procuring subscribers
for the work, Twenty five hundred subscribers least
number which will Justify him in commencing in com
mcnCng the publication hut he trusts that assurance
that that number may be obtained in the fact that nearly
one tenth part of that number about 200 have already
been sccurcdn Burlington the only place where any c-
fort has been made To procure subscribers, mud in this
town not more than half the persons who might be ex-
pcced to subscribe have yet had IN invitation. Ifpuhs
ed the undersigned only promise that he will spare no
pains to make II CrcdabI 10 himself tn the State and to
make 1t useful aud satisfactory tOhS fellow citizens.
ZADOCK THOMPSON.
Burlington, June %, 1910.