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APPLETON'S
AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA.
New Revised Edition.

| New Revised Edition.
Entirely rewritten by the ablcst writers on every
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with Several Thousand Engravings and Maps.
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1853 since which time the wide circulation hch II
has attained In all parts Of the United States and
the signal developments which have taken place i'm
very branch Of sccnc. literature aud art have in
duccd th" editors and publishers to submit IL to an
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