BY ADAM HODGSON, Esq. OF LIVERPOOL, ENG.

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Southern District of New-York, ss.

E IT REMEMBERED, That on the first day of November, in the forty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Samuel Whiting, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as author and proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

"Remarks during a Journey through North America, in the years 1819, 1820, and 1821. In a series of letters: with an appendix containing an account of several of the Indian tribes, and the principle missionary stations, &c. also a letter to M. Jean Baptiste Say, on the comparative expense of free and slave labour. By Adam Hodgson, Esq. of Liverpool, Eng. Corrected, arranged, and published by Samuel Whiting."

In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the auAnd also thors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." 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.

WAR 29 1900

J. SEYMOUR, printer, 49 John-street.

ADVERTISEMENT.

In presenting to the American public the present volume, the Editor flatters himself that he is subserving the cause of truth, benevolence, and piety.

The Letters of Mr. Hodgson, written during his extensive journeyings through this country, were originally published in the [London] Christian Observer., Emanating from a source so respectable, and communicated through a medium of such high authority, the 'publication of these Letters may be considered as the commencement of a new and better era, in the views and feelings of the people of Great Britain towards the United States-feelings, which every good man will rejoice to find are triumphing over the old and inveterate prejudices of other days./

To these Letters, the Editor has added an Appendix, containing two other interesting documents from the same hand. The first is an account of the American Indians, or rather of those Tribes which the author visited in his tour, viz. the Creeks, the Choctaws, the Chickasaws, and the Cherokees; and an interesting view of the Missionary establishments at Elliot and Brainerd: this part of Mr.