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Cover, p. 1
[Front Cover] Manuscripts Library State Historical Society
Increase A. Lapham Papers
Geographical and Topographical Description of Wisconsin, 1855. Manuscript copy of third edition.
Wis Mss. DB
Vol. 5
Handwritten Certificate of Copyright for Geographical Description of Wisconsin, p. 2
Territory of Wisconsin Third Judicial District Milwaukee County District Court
[to all?-illegible]
Be it [remembered?] that on the second day of January A.D. 1844 in the sixty eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America Increase A. Lapham of the said district hath deposited in this office the title of a book the night he claims as author in the words following suit:
"A Geographic and Topographical Description of Wisconsin with brief sketches of its history, geology, mineralogy, natural history, population, soil, productions, government, and antiquities &c. &c. By I.A. Lapham."
In conformity to the art of the congress of the United States entitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning by securing its copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned"
Lynn Hawly Leluk of the District Court for Milwaukee County in the third judicial District of the Territory of Wisconsin.
Handwritten Certificate of Copyright for Geographical Description of Wisconsin, p. 3
Certificate of Copy Right for Geographical Description of Wisconsin &c.
Title Page, p. 4
2.
Wisconsin: Its
Geography and Topography, History, Geology, and Mineralogy:
Together With
Brief Sketches of its Antiquities, Natural History, Soil, Productions, Population, and Government.
By I.A. Lapham.
Third Edition, Mostly Re-written.
Preface, p. 5
3.
Preface.
Nine years have passed since the publication of the second edition of this work, during which very important changes have occurred in regard to the country which it professes briefly to describe; the greatest of which, perhaps in the adoption of a State Constitution & the incorporation of Wisconsin into the great family of states constituting the United States of America. During this time the public surveys have been extended; numerous surveys for railroads, plank roads and for other improvements have been made; a general geological reconnaissance of the state has been completed, and a more minute and detailed survey commenced; so that a large amount of information has been collected and it is the object of this edition of the present work to collate condense so many of these newly ascertained facts, as seem to be useful.