District of New-York, ss. 



Be IT REMEMBERED, That on the 

 seventh day of December, in the twenty-eighth year of the Inde- 

 pendence of the United States of America, Samuel Miller, of 

 the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, 

 the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to 

 wit : " A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century. Part first ; 

 in two Volumes : containing a Sketch of the Revolutions and Im- 

 provements in Science, Arts, and Literature, during that period. 

 By Samuel Miller, A.M. one of the Ministers of the United 

 Presbyterian Churches in the City of New- York, Member of the 

 American Philosophical Society, and Corresponding Member of 

 the Historical Society of Massachusetts." 



IN CONFORMITY to the Act of the Congress of the 

 United States, entitled, "An Act for the Encourage- 

 ment of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, 

 Charts, and Books, to the Authors or Proprietors of 

 such Copies, during the times therein mentioned." 



EDWARD DUNSCOMB, 



Clerk of the District of JYeiv-York. 



