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Southern District of New-York, ss.

Seal. B 1925, in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of the United

IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of April, A.D.

States of America, Henry R. Schoolcraft, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit

"Travels in the Central Portions of the Mississippi Valley; comprising observations on its Mineral Geography, Internal Resources, and Aboriginal Population. (Performed under the Sanction of Government, in the Year 1821.) By Henry R. Schoolcraft, U.S.I.A. Hon. Memb. of the American Geological Society; Memb. of the American Antiquarian Society; Hon. Memb. of the New-York Historical Society; Corresp. Memb. of the NewYork Lyceum of Natural History; Correspondent of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philad., &c."

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."

JAMES DILL,

Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.

LENOX LIBRARY

NEW YORK

Chec May 1913

TO HIS EXCELLENCY

LEWIS CASS,

GOVERNOR OF THE TERRITORY OF MICHIGAN.

SIR,

WITHIN the last twenty-five years, the immense fertile region lying west of the Alleghanies, has assumed a totally new aspect. In the moral and physical changes which have produced this result; in the migrations of its inhabitants; the improvements of its soil; and the establishment of its political and literary institutions, few persons have alternately been placed in the attitude of so zealous an actor, so dispassionate a spectator, or so enlightened a ruler, as yourself.

In the progress of this extraordinary change, much is due to the kind protection and fostering aid of government, in promoting the settlement, exploring the limits, and eliciting the latent resources of this portion of America. But the slightest reflection will make it evident, that still more is due to collective enterprise, individual hardihood, or personal exertion. In this personal devotion, many estimable persons have rendered themselves conspicuous, of which it

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