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L. S.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh
day of February, in the fifty-first year of the Independence
of the United States of America, A. D. 1827,
H. C. Carey & 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:

The Prairie; a Tale, by the author of the “Pioneers” and the “Last of the
Mohicans.”

Mark his condition and the event, then
Tell me if this be a brother.
Tempest. In 2 Vols.
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States,
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 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.