Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-03-31

THE work originally published under the title OF
The NEW AMERICAS CYcLoP9DIA was completed in
le63 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 to sub
nit tito exact and thorough revision and TO is
Ene new edition entitled The AsERlCAS CTCLo-
PeDIA.
Within the last ten wears the progress of discov-
cry IN every department of know ledge has made
new work uf reference an iInpS ratiYe want.
The movement Of political affairs has kept pace
with the discoveries of science, and their fruitful
application to the industrial and useful arts aud
| the convenience and refinement of social life
Great wars and cou~equent revolutions have occur
red involving nat Onai caliges OF peculiar moment
The civil war of our own country, which was at
lite height when the last volume of the old work
appeared, has happily been ended, aud "a new
course of commercial and Industrial activity has
been commenced.
Large accessions to geographical knowledge
have been made by the interchangeable explorers OF
Africa.
The great political olutons OF the last deca, e.
with the national result of the lapse Of time have
brought into poblic view a multi ude OF new mon.
whose names are in every ones month, aud Of
whose lives every ore is curious to know the par
tculars. Great battles have been fought and i'm
portant seiges maintained, of which The details are
as yet preserved only in the newspapers or in the
transient publications of tho day, but which ought
now To take their place In permanent and authen-
tic history.
In preparing the present edition 70, the press,
il has accordingly been the aim of the editors to
bring down the information to the latest possible
dates, and to furnish accurate account OF the
most recent discoveries in science; of every fresh
production ia literature and of the newest inven-
tioDs in the practical arts well to give sue
cinc and original record OF the progress OF political
ard historical events
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| and enlarged know ledge.
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| text. They embrace ali branches Cf science and
of natural history, and depict the famous and
remarkable features of scenery architecture, and
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