:S0UTHER^' DISTRICT OF NEW- YORK, ss. 



BE IT REMEMBERED, That- on the sixth day of 

 (L. S.) June, in the forty-second year of the Independence of 

 the United States of America; William Cobbett, of 

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

 the right whereof he claims as proprietor in the words follow- 

 ing, to wit : 



" A Year's Residence in the Uniled States of .America ; frealing 

 of the Face of the Country, the Soil, the Products, the Mode of 

 Cultivating the Land, the Prices of Land, of Labour, of Food, 

 of Raiment ; of the Expenses of House-keeping, and of the usual 

 manner of Living ; of the Manners and Customs of the People : 

 and, of the Institutions of the Country, Civil, PoUlical and Re- 

 ligious. In three Parts. By William Cobbett. Part I. Con' 

 Gaining, I. A Description of the Face of the Country, the Climate, 

 the Seasons and the Soil, the Facts being taken from the Author's 

 daily Notes during a ivhole Year. II. .In Account of the Author s 

 Agricultural Experiments in the Cultivation of the Ruta Baga, 

 or Russia, or Siocdish, Turnip, which afford proof of uiiat the 

 Climate and Soil are." 



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 tlie 

 authors and proprietors of sucli copies, during the time therein 

 mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled '• an Act, supple- 

 mentary to an Act, entitled an Act for the f ncouragement of 

 Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books 

 to the authors and pro])rietors 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 



