Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-12-25

THE work originally published under til,
| title of The American Cyclopadia was com
| pieted in 1868, since which time the vide
circulation which it has attained in al parts o
| the United States, and the signal development
VIII ,h have taken place in every frsnch o.
| science, literature, and art have Induced TT
editors and publishers to submit tito an exac
and thorough revision, and to issue a new
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| t: uitiul application to the indu trial and usefu
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time, have broagh bit into public v,ewa multi
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have been fought aud important sieges main
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