Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-04-16

The work originally published under the title of
The new AMERICAN CiCLoPEDIA, was completed
IN 1868, since which time the wide circulation which
1t has attained in all parts of the United States,
and the signal developments which have taken
place in every branch of science literature, and
art, have induced the editors and publishers to
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Within the last ten years the progress of discov.
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new work of reference an imperative want.
The movement of politica affairs has kept pace
with the discoveries of science and their fruitful
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the convenience and refinement of social life.
Great wars and consequent re volutions have oc.
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meDt. The civil war OF our own country, which
was at its height when the last volume of the old
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