DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: Be it remembered, That on the seventh day of September, A. D. 1829, and in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Munroe & Francis, 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: "ANTEDILUVIAN ANTIQUITIES. Fragments of the Age of Methuselah. יתר הרפאים The remnant of giants.-Moses. He rends the veil of ages long gone by, And views their remnants with a poet's eye.-Byron. -Open new spheres of thought- Read ancient books Eloquent ruins of nations.-Everett. Translated by an American Traveller in the East." 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 the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an 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." JOHN W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. BRI |