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Anderson

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit:

District Clerk's Office.

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-seventh day of November, A. D. 1830, in the fifty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, CROCKER & BREWSTER, 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:

"Observations upon the Peloponnesus and Greek Islands, made in 1829. By RUFUS ANDERSON, One of the Secretaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions."

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, intitled, 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." JOHN W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE PRUDENTIAL COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS.

GENTLEMEN,

THE greater part of the observations here embodied were made in pursuance of Instructions received from you, and have never before been communicated in a digested form; and as this volume is prepared in obedience to your order, there seems to be an evident propriety in addressing it to you.

The work is designed to embrace such facts within my knowledge, relating to the principal objects of my inquiries, as I supposed would be acceptable to the public. It is a selection of facts from a much greater number, obtained by Mr. Smith and myself.

There is another class of observations, of a nature to be interesting to the Directors of missions, rather than to the community at large. Most of these I have laid before you

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already, and the others are at your command whenever you shall require them.

I am sensible, that this work must have defects. The necessary documents were not all in my possession, for several months after my return return from the Mediterranean; and, since they have been, numerous interruptions, occasioned by the ordinary duties

of

my office, have, as you well know, been unavoidable. I have to regret, also, as many of my readers probably will, that your many avocations have prevented most of my pages from receiving the benefit of your revision.

I can truly say, that I have aimed, throughout, at perfect accuracy in my statements; and, as I have not been remiss in exertions to render my work worthy of perusal, I submit it cheerfully to your kind patronage, and also to that of the many friends of the cause, in which we have the happiness to be engaged. I am, Gentlemen, with great affection and respect, your friend and servant.

R. ANDERSON.

Missionary Rooms,

Boston, November 1830.

CONTENTS.

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