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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS.....to wit : BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the eleventh day of December A . D . 1830, in the fifty fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Hilliard, G :ay , Little , and Wilkins, 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 : “ The Children 's Robinson Crusoe ; or the Remarkable Adventures of an Englishman ,who lived Five Years on an Unknown and Uninhab

ited Island in the Pacific Ocean . By a Lady. I am monarch of all I survey,

My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea,

I am lord of the fowl and the brute . Cowper.

Embellished with Cuts.”

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled , “ An Act for the encouragement of learning, by'securing the

copies ofmaps, 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 ofdesigning, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.” JNO. W . DAVIS , Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE : PRINTED BY E . W . METCALF AND CO .