University of Virginia Library

Southern District of New-York, ss.

Be it remembered, That on the seventeenth day of October, in the
forty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America,
Charles Wiley, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title
of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following,
to wit:

“The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale.
By the Author of `Precaution'.

`Extremes of habits, manners, time and space,
Brought close together, here stood face to face,
And gave at once a contrast to the view,
That other lands and ages never knew.'—
Paulding.”
In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled “As
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 time therein mentioned.” And also to an 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.”

JAMES DILL.
Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.