PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR THE USE OF CLASSES, AND THE
FAMILY READING CIRCLE.

D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 200 BROADWAY.

PHILADELPHIA:

GEO. S. APPLETON, 164 CHESNUT-STREET.

M.DCCC.XLIX.

:

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.

TO

THE HON. OGDEN HOFFMAN,

THIS ATTEMPT TO RENDER