PRIZE ESSAY ON TEMPERANCE. Fifty Dollars were offered for the best Essay on Temperance. Twenty were presented for the premium, and from them all, Professor HITCHCOCK's Essay was unanimously adjudged to have the highest merit. A hope is now entertained that every individual in the United States will possess one or more copies of this most valuable treatise which is now recommended by distinguished professional gentlemen, as follows: "The subscribers have examined Professor Hitchcock's Prize Essay, and find it full of valuable matter. The facts and principles contained in it appear to be of such high importance, that we ardently hope it will be examined by heads of families throughout the country; and if they think as we do, that they will take pains to instil its doctrines into the minds of their children and dependants. ESSAY ON TEMPERANCE, ADDRESSED PARTICULARLY TO STUDENTS, AND THE YOUNG MEN OF AMERICA. BY EDWARD HITCHCOCK, Professor of Chemistry and Natural History in Amherst College. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE AMERICAN TEMPERANCE IT BEING THE ESSAY TO WHICH A PREMIUM WAS AWARDED. SECOND EDITION. AMHERST. PUBLISHED BY J. S. & C. ADAMS; JONATHAN LEAVITT, NEW YORK; PIERCE AND WILLIAMS, BOSTON. 1830. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS,.... To wit: Be it remembered, that on the ninth day of April, A. D. 1830,in the fifty fourth year of the independence of the United States of America, J. S. and C. Adams, and Company 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: An Essay on Alcoholic and Narcotic Substances, as articles of common use addressed particularly to Students. By Edward Hitchcock, professor of Chemistry and Natural History in Amherst College. Published under the direction of the American Temperance Society. It being the Essay to which a premium was awarded. In conformity to the act of 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 66 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, and etching historical and other prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. |