Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-02-10

The work originally published under the title of
The NEW AMERICAN CfCLoPEDIA, was completed
IN 1858 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 branch of science, literature, and
art have induced the editors and publishers 10
submit il to exact and thorough revision, and 10
issue new edition entitled THE AMERICAN CY-
CLOPEDIA.
Within the last fen years the progress of discov-
cry in every department OF knowledge has made a
new work of reference an imperative want.
The movement of political affairs has kept pace
with the discoveries OF science ana thelr 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 q new
course OF commercial and industrial activity has
been commenced
Large accessions to our geographical knowledge
have been made by the interchangeable explorers OF
Africa.
Tine great political revolutions of the last decade,
with the natural result OF the lapse of time have
brought into public view a multitude of new men,
whose names are in every ones mouth, and OF
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yet preserved only in the newspapers or in the
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Improvements in Its composition as have been sug
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first time in the present edition have been added
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lucidity and force to the explanations in the text
They embrace all branches OF science and OF natu-
raj history, and depict The most famous and re-
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rs well as the various proc OF mechanics and
manufactures. Although intended for instruction
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