BOSTON:
CUMMINGS, HILLIARD AND COMPANY,

AND HARRISON GRAY.

1826.

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of 730storia.h.16.1860)

entitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing portion

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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit:

District Clerk's Office.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the second day of January,
A. D. 1826, in the Fiftieth Year of the Independence of the United
States of America, CUMMINGS, HILLIARD AND COMPANY,
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 :

“ Miscellaneous Poems, selected from the United States Literary
Gazette."

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States

These UNITED

this dep

pieces a

the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Propri}
etors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned ;” and al},
go 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 ben-
efits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching His-
torical and other Prints."

JNO. W. DAVIS,
Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

a very in expedier

True & Greene, Printers,

Merchants Hall.

Ofice. of January,

the United COMPANY,

Title of a the Wordi

ADVERTISEMENT.
These poems were originally published in the

UNITED STATES LITERARY GAZETTE. In their s Literary

present form, they constitute a volume of American

Poetry, which can hardly fail to be acceptable to that securing portion of the public, who take a peculiar interest in and Propri this department of our literature. As the different

pieces are the productions of several authors, and of copies a very miscellaneous character, it was not thought Drs of such expedient to attempt any systematic arrangement of

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