The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-12-23

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Win several thousand engraysngs and maps.
The work originally labiis ished under the Il lie OF
The NEW A AMkKicAN cfCLoP 4EDIA was conaplet-
ed in 1855, since which time the wide circulation
which it has attained In all parts Of the United
States and the signal developments which have
Ia ken place IN every branch OF science, literature
and ART have indueed the editors and publishers
i 10 submit 10 an exact and thorough revision. and
TO issue new edirion.enttiedTs TsE AMERICAN cy-
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Within the last ten years the progress Of dis
/ coveTy in every department Of knowledge has
made q new work OF reference an imperative
want.
The movement Of political aaairs. has kept pace
with the discoveries OF science, and their fruitful
application 10 the industrial and useful arts, and
othe convenience and refinement OF social lite.--
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 a
new course OF commercial aud industrial activity
has been commenced.
Large aecessions TO cur geographical knowledge
have been made i.y the indeiatigable explorers Of
T Africa.
The great political revolutions Of thelastdecade
with the natural result Of the lapse Of time, have
brought into view n multitude OF new men, whose
names are in every one mouth, and OF whose lives
every one is curious to know the particulars. Great
battles have been f0zght and important sieges
maintained, of which the details are MS yet pre-
served only in the newspapers OF in the transient
I
take their place In permanent and artneptie his
tory.
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dOWu the information 70 the latest possible dates,
aud to furnish an accurate account Of the most re-
cent discoveries in science OF every fresh produc-
tiOn in literature and OF the newest inventions In
the practical arts as well as to give succnet and
original record OF the progress o. political and ms
4 tOrical events.
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\ preliminary Ia bnr With annie
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tlon.
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/ type, fOrI1ing in fact new CyclOpeiia. with the
same plan and compass as lis predecessor, but
with far greater pecnniary expenditure, AMI
with such improvements In ifs composition az have
been sugRes'ed b FoegrF esprrisnee ami enlarged
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first time IN the present edition have been added
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raj history, and depict the most famous aad re-
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about 500 pages, fully illustrated. with several
thousand Wood Engravings, and With numerous
colored Lithographie Maps.
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