Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Curious Arts. [Illustration: Sketches of Landscapes. [See page 31]] A SELECT COLLECTION OF VALUABLE AND CURIOUS ARTS, AND INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS, WHICH ARE WELL EXPLAINED AND WARRANTED GENUINE AND MAY BE PERFORMED EASILY, SAFELY, AND AT LITTLE EXPENSE. THIRD EDITION. CONCORD: PUBLISHED BY RUFUS PORTER. J. B. Moore, Printer. 1826. Transcriber's Note: Some of the articles in the Appendix do not list a price. DISTRICT OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, to wit. _District Clerk's Office._ [Sidenote: L. S.] Be it remembered, that on the twenty-second day of October, A.D. 1825, and in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, RUFUS PORTER, of the said District, has deposited in this Office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:-- "_A Select Collection of valuable and curious Arts and interesting Experiments, which are well explained and warranted genuine, and may be performed easily, safely, and at little expense._" 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 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." SAMUEL CUSHMAN, _Clerk of the District of New-Hampshire_. A true copy of record:-- Attest, SAMUEL CUSHMAN, _Clerk_. ADVERTISEMENT.