It says "The following is the dedication of James Lambert a soldier of the Revol...

Unearned5161 · 2025-01-18T03:15:17 1737170117

I'm not too sure about that reading, I got "The following is the declaration of James Lambert a soldier of the Revolutionary War in South America." rather different

sayrer · 2025-01-18T03:22:08 1737170528

oh, it is "declaration", yes, but not South America. this guy is even on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/James-Lambert-1758-1847-Elaboration-R...

jahewson · 2025-01-18T03:28:18 1737170898

I got “North America”

ripe · 2025-01-18T04:25:52 1737174352

Hmm, interesting: “North America” does make sense, and 4o also seems to transcribe it that way, but the handwriting looks like it says “South America” to me.

sayrer · 2025-01-18T03:14:41 1737170081

Yes, that seems right. Not that difficult. This one suffers from some poor penmanship, though.