, 1873-12-16
APPLETON'S OYCLOPEDIA.
APPLETONS'
AMERICAN CYCLOP HD[k,
NEW REVTHDD EDITION.
Entirely sowrtsu by tho Ab!ost wrlto o7oEy snboot
Printed fran now tyro. and illustrated With bsr.
sral Thousand EngEavn9s and Maps.

tbs work originally publlhcd undor tho tito OF TIE
NEW AMEnlcAN CrcLopKp1A completed in 1865,
since which ttms tho vida circulation which 1t has At
tAued Ia all parts Of tho unttod States and tho signal
which ayo taken rlacs ovoy branch Of
SCIENCE literature. and art have induced tbs editors and
publishers to submit 1t to exact and thorough revision.
and to issue a naw edition. entitled THE ANEh1oAA
QyCLopEDIA.
Within tbs last ten yaars the pro9cas Of discovery In
avery department Of knowledge has mado work Of
rofoEsnce an Imperative want.
Tha movement Of political Affairs has kept paos with
the tseayeres Of aoonco. and thpLr fruitful application
to thb Industrial and useful as and tho convsnencs au
rofnomcut Of aoosal llte 0roAt and consequent
revolutions havo occuFsod Involving national changes Of
peculiar moment. Tho civil OF country which
was It's height waa thu last volume Of thu old work
peare has happily been endod, and course OF com.
snsrclal aad Industrial activity has haen commancod.
Large Accosfous to our geographical knowledge thva
been madn BY tho fndefagshle explorers Of Africa.
The g1eat political revolutions Of ls Inst decade, with
thu natural result Of tho apso Of n have brought into
public ven multitude Of nav ucn whuao nafes arc In
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and Important sIsgos maintained, Of which the detaIa
ars only in the newspapers in the ran
,!ont qualifications Ut the day but ~hoh ought IA
taks thotr paco In permanent and authentic history.
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