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NEW YORK: COLLINS, KEESE, AND COMPANY.

PHILADELPHIA: THOMAS, COWPERTHWAIT, AND COMPANY.

CINCINNATI: M. KUGLER; E. LUCAS.

RALEIGH, N.C. TURNER AND HUGHES.

LONDON: WILEY AND PUTNAM.

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Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1840, by

DAVID H. WILLIAMS,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:

FOLSOM, WELLS, AND THURSTON,
Printers to the University.

PREFACE.

THE volume of the American Alınanac which is now offered to the public, is the 12th from the commencement of the publication, and the 2d of the Second Series of 10 volumes; and it is hoped that it will not be found less worthy of a favorable reception, than those which have preceded it.

For explanations relating to the Astronomical Department, the reader is referred to the Preliminary Observations of Mr. Paine, who has prepared that portion of this volume of the Almanac, as well as of all the eleven preceding ones; and who has done it in such a manner as to give, we believe, great satisfaction to the public, and to gain for himself an honorable reputation.

We have not, in all cases, been so successful in procuring information as we could wish; and the notices in relation to some of the States are not so full and satisfactory as might be desired; yet we have always found it necessary to omit, for want of room, some things, which it might be useful to insert.

A new Census of the United States is to be completed within six months from the 1st of June, 1840. This Census is to embrace, in addition to an account of the Population of the country, Statistical Information relating to several important subjects; and, though it may be far from being so comprehensive, or so minute and thorough, as could be wished, yet it will doubtless be a great improvement upon the five preceding censuses, which have been

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