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

THE work originally published under tho title Of
THE NEW AMERICAN CYcLuP=DIA romrl. ted in
ls63, since which time the wide circu iaiun which
t has attained III all parts Of the United States
and the siSual developments which have taken
place ia every branch of SCIENCE, literature. and art
have induced the editors and pIblis hers To sub
nit ii to exact and thorough revision, and to is
size u new edition entitled HE AMERICAN LYILO-
rHDIA.
Within the last ten wears the progress of discov-
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The movement of political affairs has kept pace
with the discoveries Of science, and their fruitful
application 10 the industrial and useful arts and
the convenience and refinement of social life
Great wars and consequent revolutions have occur.
red, involving national cAhnges OF peculiar moment
The civil war of our own country, which wax at
lie height when the last volume of the old work
appeared, has happily been ended, and new
course Of commercial and Industrial urtivity has
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Africa.
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