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Show , ~buthtrn Disi,•t'ct of New-York, !j.9. BE IT RE.MEMBERED, that on the twentieth day of January, in;Jthe forty-first y~ar .of the Independ.ence .of th~ United Sta.tes. of Arn~ica, Kirk & Mercem, of the !'!aiel Dtstnct, have depostted m thts office the tttle of a :aook, the right whereof the_y elaini as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit: · " The Etnigrant's Guide to the 'Western and Southwestern States and Territories : c.o~p~sing a GeogTaphical and Statisti~al Descriptio~ of the States of Louisia~1a, Mis! Jil~lppt, Te~ne~see, Kentucky, and Ohto ;-the Te~n.tones of Alabama, MissouriAI.llino~ s, and Mtchtga~ ; and thf; western pa~ts of Vtl'gtma, Pennsylvania, and New-Y~k. W1th a complet~ Ltst of the Road and Rm'lr ~outes ~est of the Aleghany Mountains, and the co,nnectJ~g Roads. from New-york, Ph!ladelph1~1• and Washington City, to NewOrleans, St. Loms, and Ptttsburg. 'I he whole cornpnsmg a more comprehensive Accc; mnt of th~ Soil, Productions, Cli~ate , and pr~sent statt:: of Improvement of the Regwns descnbed, than any Work httherto publtshed. Accompanied by a Map of the Unite~ ~tates, including Louisiana, projected ~nd ~ngraved expressly fo r this work. By Wtlham Darby, Member of the New-York Htstorical Society, and Author of a Ma ) and Statistical Account of the State of Louisiana aud the adjacent Regions." 1 In conformity to the Act of the Congt·«>ss of the United States entitled " An Act for the encouragement of Lea!·ning, by securin&' the copies of Maps, Charts, and J?ooks ~~ the authors and propr1~tors ?f such coptes, during the time therein mentioned. And also to an Act, entttle.d 'An Act, ~upplementary to an Act, enti tled an Act for the encouragement of L~ammg, by secura~g the ~opies of Maps, Charts, and J?ooks to the auth~rs and propnetors of such copies, dunng the times therein mentiOned, and extendmg the benefits thereof to the art~t of designing engravin.o- and et<.;h~ ing bistori€:al and other prints., ' 0 ' JAMES DILL, Clerk Qf the Southern Di~trict of New-Yodc. .NoTE.-ln the following Corrections, mere errors of ~pelling, or of. the press, are overlooked. Only those corrections are made where the sense 1s affected by the words as they stand in the text. The reaJer is desired to make t he following corrections: In table page 14, the numbers in the second column standing opposite to the words Arkansaw, and White river, are inverted; after Arkansaw, read 620, and after White river, 650. In line 31, from head of page 17, for Perssinon, read Persimon. In page 21, fifth line from bottom, for their liability, read the liability. In page 26, line 7 from head of the page, for Dijou, read Dijon.-Same page, line 9 from head of the page, for Beaune, read Beaume.-Same page, line 25 from the head of the page, for Durane, read Durance. In page 28, line 7 from bead of the page, fo1· Rheins, read Rheims. In page 32, line 6 from bottom of the page, for Maurpas, read Maurepa$. . In road No.5, page 37, retrench 30 from eacb of the last four aggregate dts· tances, which will render· the numbers respeytively, 166, 211, 261, and 306 In page 41, line 17 from head, after Pascag\) ula, read, and thence by water. In page 41, line 12 from the bottom, after the word suit, insert a semicolon, and ~ead the following, thus; his mattress is ~hen stretched, &c. In page 57, line 15 from head, for is rnost,tread are most. In page 87, line 19 and 20 ft·om head, for Bistenean, read Bistineau. In page 136, line 16 and 17 fl·om head, for Petititbois, read Pelitbois. In road 29, page 157, add 20 to each aggregate distance below 198, standing opposite to the words " mouth of Ohio;" the real distance by water from S~ . Louis to New Orleans, is 1209 miles. ' In page 164, the latitude of St. Louis is marked 45 deg. 15 min., for which read 46 deg. 15 min. In page 143, under the article St. Louis, for the sight is bold, 1·ead the site is bold; and under the sume article, for delapidated, read dilapidated. In page 166, line 6 from head, for calycle, read calyx.-Same page, line 9 from head, for calycle, read calyx.-Same page, line lJ from head, for lisse, read glossy. In page 172, last line but one, in the note, for pecel, read peach. In page 173, line 29 from bead, for frost, read sort. . .In the statistical table, page 187, undet· population, and opposite Pennsyl va~ nta, fol'l02, and 391, read 202, 391. In page 205, line 21 from bead, for has, read have. In page 227, fit·st line, Wil)iamsburg in Clermont county is noticed amongst the principal towns of the state of Ohio; of course ought to be retrenched from towns of secondary note, which are named in page 229. . In page 246, line· 5 ft•om bottom, fot· afford, read affords; and same page, lme 11 from bottom, for l'ender, read renders. In page 410, topographical table of the western parts of the state of NewYo1 ·k, after Cortlandt, add Franklin, 2-617-which latte1· number, added to the aggregate, 191·812, wiU give 194·4291 as the an1ount of the population of west Niw·York, in 1810. |