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`HE NEW CYCLCraI)IA; or, UNIVERSAL
DICTIONARY of Atrs, SCIENCES, and LITERA•
TUkE; formed upon a more enlarged Plan of Arrangement than
the Dictionary of Mr. Chamhers ; c eoprehending the various
Articles of that Work, with Additions and Improyemmts; t..ge
ther with the new Sublets of Biography, Geography.and
and adapted to the prefent State of Lice: mute and ScitAcc.
! • By gi BR AHA NI REES; D. D. F. R. S:
Editor of the 1.::R Edition of Mr. Chambers's Dictionary, with.the

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