PUBLIC LIBRARY 744450 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS Southern District of New-York, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-fifth day of April, in the forty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, Samuel Wood & Sons, 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: "The Scientific Library: or, Repository of Useful and Polite Literature; comprising Astronomy, Geography, Mythology, Ancient History, Modern History, and Chronology. In six volumes. By Thomas Smith; Author of the Sacred Mirror, Universal Atlas, &c. Revised and improved. 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. 31 A COMPENDIOUS SYSTEM OF ASTRONOMY. -you cannot go Where UNIVERSAL LOVE not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their sons. THOMSON.. BY THOMAS SMITH. Author of the Sacred Mirror, Universal Atlas, 2.. REVISED AND IMPROVED. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL WOOD & SONS, And Samuel S. Wood & Co. No. 212, Market-st. mmm EXPLANATION OF THE FRONTISPIECE. ASTRONOMY. AN affectionate mother instructing her young daughter in the use of the telescope, by which we become more intimately acquainted with the heavenly bodies. She has just directed her to observe the mountains in the moon, which are supposed to be about three miles high. |
