EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit: 



BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the 6th day of March, in the forty-fifth year 

 of the independence of the United States of America, A. D 1821, JAMES 

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

 the right whereof he claims as author and proprietor in the words following, 

 to wit: 



THE VERMIN DESTROYER,being a complete and necessary family book; 

 showing a sure and ready way of destroying Adders, Birds if alt kinds, Bugs, 

 Caterpillars, Pisants, Flies, Fleas, Foxes, Poltcats, Rabbits, Hans, Frogs, 

 Gnats, Lice, Mice, Moths, Otters, Serpents, Snails, Snakes, Spiders, Toads, 

 Wasps, Weasels, Worts or Moles on any part of the body. Worms in houses, 

 gardens, or fruit trees. Jl new mode of catching all kinds of Birds and wild 

 Fwl; Fish of all kinds. Moles and Locusts. Jllso some valuable medical 

 Receipts for the Rheumatism, Palsy, Gout, Pleurisy, Cholic, Ulcers, Spit- 

 ting of blood, Dropsy, Consumption, Scurvy, Itch and Piles, and every 

 stage of the Flux cured. To which are added many curious secrets in Na- 

 ture and Art. By Dr. James Johnston. The above have been proved for 

 more than twenty years, never to fail. 



In comformity to the act of the congress of the United States, intituled, 

 ' l 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 supple- 

 mentary 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 bene- 

 fits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and 

 other prints." 



DAVID CALDWELL, 

 Ckrk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 



