H. C. CAREY AND I. LEA-CHESNUT STREET.

Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 21st day of December, in the fifty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1826, H. C. Carey and I. Lea, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

"Letters from the Bahama Islands. Written in 1823-4."

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intituled "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act entitled, "An Act supplementary to an act, entitled, 'An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching, historical and other prints."

D. CALDWELL,

Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Mifflin & Parry, Printers.

ALL that can be said of this Work is, that

the manuscript was recommended to the Publishers by a gentleman of known literary merit, and that it was written in a fair, but illegible, Italian hand.

November, 1826.