Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-05-06


The work originally published under the
title of the New American Cycopadiawa
completed in 1868, since which time the
wide circulation which it has attained in
all parts OF the United States, and the
signal developments which have taken place
in every bianch of science, literature, and
art have induced the editors and publish
ers to submit to an exact and thorough re-
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Within the past ten years the progress of
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and their fruitful application to the indus
trial and useful arts and the convenience
aud refinement Of social life. Great wars
and consequent revolutions have occurred.
involving national hangeS of peculiar mo.
ment The civil war of our own country,
which was at its height when the last vol
ume of the old work appeared, has happl-
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merclal and industrial activity has been
| commenced.
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knowledge have been made by the indie
fatigable explorers of Africa.
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| decade, with the natural result of the lapse
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