Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-02-03

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The NEW AMERICAN CYCLoPfDIA, was completed
IN 1858, since which time the wide circulation which
1t has attained in all parts Of the United States,
| and the signal developments which have taken
art, have induced the editors and publishers to
submit it to an exact and thorough revision, and TO
issue new edition entitled THE AMERICAN CY-
| CLOPFDTA.
| Within the last ten years the progress of iscoy
cry in every department. OF knowledge has made
new work Of reference an imperative want
| The movement of political affairs has kent pace
with the discoveries of science, and their fruitful
application to the industrial and useful arts and
| the convenience and refinement of social life.
| Great wars and consequent revolutions have oc.
Cured involving national changes of peculiar mo-
ment. The civil war of our own country, which
was at its height when the last volume of the old
work appeared, has happily been ended and new
course of commercial and Industrial activity has
been commenced
Large accessions to our geographical knowledge
have been made by the indefaiigabe explorers Of
Africa.
The great political revolutions of tAe las decade
with the natural result of the lapse of time have
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whose names are IN every ones mouth, and of
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gested by longer experience and enlarged knowl.
edge.
first time in the present edition have been added
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