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Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the tenth day of January, in the fiftieth
year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1826, 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 and figures following,
to wit:

“The Last of the Mohicans; a narrative of 1757. By the author of `The
Pioneers.'

“Mislike me not, for my complexion,
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun.”
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 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.”

D. CALDWELL,
Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Clayten & Van Norden, Printers, 64 Pine-street, New-York.