Transcribed from the 1880 Robert Banks edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
London: printed by
Robert Banks, Racquet Court, Fleet Street, E.C.
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the
Lost Ten Tribes,
and
1882.
by
REV. JOSEPH WILD, D.D.,
pastor of union congregational church,
brooklyn, n.y.
LONDON:
robert banks, racquet court, fleet street. e.c.
1880.
This device of the great Seal was adopted by act of the Continental Congress, on June 20th, 1782, and re-adopted by the New Congress, September 15th, 1789. The act provided for an obverse and a reverse, as set forth in this plate; the reverse is not used. This is a plate of the first and original Seal, which, by use, has been worn out. The one now in use is the second; it differs from the first that, by an accident, seven arrows were left out of the eagle’s talon.