DISTRICT OF MJIRYLAJSTD, ss. 



BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the fifteenth day of October, in the 

 *orty -fourth year of the Independence of the United States of Amer- 

 S SKAL. Z ica, H. M. Brackenridge, of the said District, hath deposited in this 

 office, the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprie- 

 tor, in the words and figures following, to wit: 



"A Vo^^age to South Atnerica, performed by order of the American govern- 

 ment, in tlif yg§rs 1817 and 1818, in the frigate Congress. By H. M. Bracken- 

 I'idge, Esq. sapstary to the mission. 



"The glimmerings which reach us from South America, enable us only to see 

 that its inhabitants are held under the accumulated pressure of slavery, super- 

 stition, and ignorance. Whenever they shall be able to rise under this weight, 

 and to show themselves to the rest of the world, they will probably show that 

 they are like the rest of the world."—- jeffebson's notes on Virginia. 



In conformity to an Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, *«An Act 

 ibr the encourage nent of ijeariiiug, 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 the Act, 

 entitled, 'An Act for the eacoaragoment 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." 



PHILIP MOORE, 

 Ckrk of the District of Maryland. 



