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Be it Remembered, That on the twenty -third day of 

 April,, in the thirty -first Year of the Independence of the 

 United States of America, A. D. 1807, William Young 

 Birch and Abraham Small, of the said District, have depo- 

 sited in this Office the Title of a Book, the Right whereof 

 they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit : 



<^ A Geological Account of the United States ; comprehend- 

 **ing a short description of their Animal, Vegetable, and 

 ** Mineral productions. Antiquities and Curiosities. By 

 *^ James Mease, M. D. Member of the American Philo- 

 "sophical Society, and Corresponding Member of the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. 



''Keview these numerous scenes— at once survey 

 Nature's extended face, then Sceptics say. 

 In this wide field of wonders can you find 

 No art discovered, and no end designed * 



In Conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United 

 States, intituled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learn- 

 ing, 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 Encou- 

 ragement 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 extend- 

 ing the Benefits thereof to the Arts of designing, engraving 

 and etching, historical and other Prints/' 



(L. S.) D. CALDWELL. 



Ckrk of the District <^ Fennsylvania^ 



