Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-01-27
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The work originally published under the title col
rms y w AMERICAS uYCLuPTnIA was compi led IN
tsU3, since which time the widU cIrcu ai!un wnlch
1 mas attained Ia all parts oi t"o Unlted states,
aid The signal developments VIZ have taken
place 1T every branch ui sciciic", urc. and art
nave induced tho editors aud -, ~ to suD-
NIT il exact aHd thorup and To- Is
edition entitled Ne -;AN CYCLV-
PRDIA. ~
" Itnin the ast ten years the progress OF discov
cry in every department OF know dgn mas made i
new work Of reference an Imperative want.
The movement OF political Affairs hats kept pace
with the discoveries of science and their iIuitGui
application 20 the Industrial and useful ar;A aud
the couy cnisnee and refinement al social life
Great and cuuSequent revolutions have occur
red involving national cahngcs of peculiar moment.
The civil war of our own country, which was at
! lie height when the last volume Of the old work
| appeared, has happily been ended, and 4 new
course of CONNER ciAl and industrial activity has
| been commenced
| have ucen mado by tn, indei4tisable explorers Of
Africa.
The graf Political olutions OF the last deca-e,
with tue national result of the lapse Of time, have
| brough into pobiic view multitude of new mon,
( whose names are in efery ones mouth. and Of
Whose lives every ore is curious - know the par
ticulurs. Great battles have been fought and I'M
uortant seiyes IN snainod, Of which Inc details
| as VT preserved only in the newspapers or in the
trans eut puhnca;uns of the day, out which ought
now to take their place III permanent and autheh-
| tic history.
In preparing the present edition for the press,
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dates. and To furnish accurate account OF the
recent discoveries in science, OF every fresh
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The work has been beg-n after long and careful;
| preliminary labor and with the NEST ample resCur
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Nome of the original stereotype plates have beer
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dture, and with such improvements in its compo-
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Tn. illustrations which are introd uced for the
FIRST time in the present edition have been add"d
not far the sake of pictorial effect, but 20 give
greater ucidity and force TO the explanation In the
text. They embrace all branches # scicnco and
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: remarkable features If scenery architecture, and
art as well as the various processes aud mechan-
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