PUBLIC LIBRARY 296375B ASTOR, LENOX AND · 1944 Southern District of New-York, ss. BE it remembered, that on the twenty-ninth day of December, in the fortyeighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Charles Wiley, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "The Pilot; a Tale of the Sea. By the Author of the Pioneers, &c. &c. List ye Landsmen, all to me. In Two Volumes. Vol. I." 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 authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time 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. PRINTED BY T. K. & P. G. COLLINS, PHILA. TO WILLIAM BRANFORD SHUBRICK, ESQUIRE, MASTER COM. U. S. NAVY. MY DEAR SHUBRICK, Each year causes some new and melancholy chasm in what is now the brief list of my naval friends and former associates.War, disease, and the casualties of a hazardous profession. have. mado fearful inroads in the limited number; while the places of the dead are supplied by names that to me are strangers. With the consequences of these sad changes before me, I cherish the recollection of those with whom |