Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-28


The work originally published under the title of
The New American Cycl0Irdia completed in 1868,
since which time the wide circulation which II has at
tanned in all parts Of the United States and the signal
developments which have taken place III every branch
Of science literature aud ant have induced the editors
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Tho movement of political affairs has kept pace with
the discoveries of science and their fruitful application
to the industrial aud useful arts, and the convenience
and refinement Of social life TREAT wars and cOnse
quent revolutions have occurred, involving national
country Which was nt Its height when the last volume
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new course of commercial and Industrial activity has
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with the natural result of the lapse of time, have
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