DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit: 
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-fourth day of Decem¬ 
ber, in the thirty-ninth year of the independence of the United States 
of America, A. D 1814, Bradford and Inskeep, of the said district; have 
deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim 
as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: 
Journal of a Cruise made to the Pacific Ocean, bv Captain David Por¬ 
ter, in the United States Frigate Essex, in the years 1812, 1813, and 1814. 
Containing Descriptions of the Cape de Verd Islands, Coasts of Brazil, 
Patagonia, Chili, and Peru, and of the Gallapagos Islands; also, a full ac¬ 
count of the Washington Groupe of Islands, the Manners, Customs, and 
Dress of the Inhabitants, &c. &c. Illustrated with fourteen engravings,. 
In two volumes. 
In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, 
u An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of 
maps, charts, and books, to the owners 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 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 benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and 
etching historical and other prints.” 
D. CALDWELL, 
Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. 
