Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-11-10


TEE work originally published under the title Of
THIS NEw AMERICAS CTcL"P;sDIA Wa cnnlpIcted in
1868. since which time the wide circulation which
Il has attained iu 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 to sub
nit it to exact and thorough revision and to is
sne a now edition entitled TIE A2EkICAS CYcLO-
PeDIA.
within the last ten years the progress Of diseov-
cry in every department Of knowl-dyr has made
work Of reference Imperative want.
The movement Of political a5airs has kept pace
with the dscOy PTies Of science, and their fruitful
application to the industrial and useful arts and
the convenience and refinement Of social life.-
Great wars and con-equent revolutions have occur
red iuvol wing national cShnges OF peculiar moment.
The civil war Of our own country, which At
its height when the last volume Of the old work
appeared, has happily been ended, and a new
course Of commercial and industrial activity has
been commenced.
Large sccessions to our geographical knowledge
havo been made by the iudefatigIble explorers Of
Africa.
The great political rev olutiohs OF the last decaae
with the national result Of the lapse OF time have
brought into poblic view a multitude o. new men,
whose names are in every ones mouth and Of
whose lives every ore is curious to know the par.
tieulars. Great battles have been fought and in
pOrtant seiges maintained, OF W hieh the datsils
yet preserved only in the newspapers or In the
transient publications Of the day, but which ought
now to take their place in permanent and anthem
tic history.
In preparing the present edition for the press
II has accordingly been the aim OF the editors 10
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most recent discoveries in science OF every fresh
production in literature, and Of the newest nven-
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cinc and original record Of tho progress Of political
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The work has beeu begun after long and csref1I
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The illustrations which introduced for the
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text. They embracs all branches Of science and
Of natural history, and depict the most famous and
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believed they will 6nd welcome reception a. all
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