Note: Images of the original pages are available through the Google Books Library Project. See https://books.google.com/books?id=WhGc5a5srvYC&hl=en Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). LAFAYETTE IN AMERICA IN 1824 AND 1825; Or, Journal of a Voyage to the United States: by A. LEVASSEUR; Secretary to General Lafayette during His Journey. Translated by John D. Godman, M. D. VOL. I. Philadelphia: Carey and Lea. 1829. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit: Be it remembered, That on the sixth day of November, in the fifty-fourth year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1829, Carey and Lea, of the said District, have deposited in this Office the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: “Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825; or Journal of a Voyage to the United States: by A. Levasseur, Secretary to General Lafayette during his journey. Translated by John D. Godman, M. D.” 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 the 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.” (Signed) D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE AUTHOR’S PREFACE. In publishing at this late period the journal of my voyage to the United States, along with General Lafayette, in 1824 and 1825, I think it right to account for the circumstances, which have so long delayed this publication.