Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-01-31

The work originally published under the tile OF
The NEW AMERICAN CYCLoPEDIA, was completed
IN 1868 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
submit It to exact and thorough revision, and to
issue new edition entitled TIM AMERICAN Cl.
CLOPEDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress of discoy-
cry in every department OF knowledge mas made
new work of reference an Imperative want.
The movement of political affairs has kept pace
with the discoveries of science and their fruitful
application to the industrial and useful arts and
the convenience and refinement OF social life.
Great wars and consequent revolutions have oe'
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 Il new
course of commercial and industrial ACTIVITY mas
been commenced.
have been made by the interchangeable explorers OF
Africa
The great pol teal revolutions of the last decade
with the natural result OF the lapse of time, have
brought into public view a multitude of new men,
whose names are in every ones mouth and OF
whose life every one is curious to know the partic-
ulars. Great battles have been fought and impor-
tant sieges maintained, OF which The details are
yet preserved only In the newspapers or IN the
transient publications OF the day, but which ought
now to take their place III permanent and authentic
history.
has accordingly been the aim of the editors to
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fresh production in literature, and of the newest
inventions in the practical arts, well rs to give
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forming in fact new Cyclopadia, with the same
plan and compass as its predecessor, but with
far greater pecuniary expenditure, and with such
improvements in Its composition as nave been sut,
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first time in the present edition have been added
not for the sake pictorial effect but to give great
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They embrace all branches OF science and OF natu.
raj history, aud depict the most famous and re-
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ms well as the various proce OF mechanics ana
manufactures. Although intended for instruction
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