The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-06-15

AMERICAN. CYtLOPADIA..


Entirely rewritten by the ablest writer's on every
subject. Printed from new type, and illustrat-
cd with Several Thousand Engraving and Maps.
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N. Y.
The work originally published under tho title
of The NEW AMERICAN CYcLoPEDIA was complet-
ed 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 an exact and thorough revision,
and to issue n new edition entitled THR AMERICAN
C~YCLOPADIA.
Within the last ten years tho progress of dis
coyery in every department of knowledge has
made a 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 &C.
CURED, involving national changes Of peculiar
moment. 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 and industrial actiyi-
ty has been commenced.
Large accessions to our geographical knowledge
have been made by the indefatigable explorers of
Africa.
The great political revolutions of the last de-
cade, 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 lives every one is curious to know the
particulars. Great battles have been fought and
important seiges maintained, of which the details
are as yet preserved only in the newspapers or in
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
it has accordingly been the aim of the editors I,
bring down the information to the latest possibl,
dates, and to furnish an accurate account Of th,
most recent discoveries in science, of every fresl
production in literature, and of the newest in
v%entions in the practical arts, as well as to give
a succint and original record of the progress of pc
litical and historical events.
The work has been begun after long and care
full preliminary labor, and with the most ampli
resources for carving it on to a successful termin
alton.
None of the original stereotype plates hav
been used. but every page has been printed OF
new typo, forming in fact a new Cyclop@dia, witt
the same plan and compass as its predecessor, bu
with n far greater pccuniary expenditure, an,
with such improvements in its composition a
have been suggested by longer experience and en-
J larged knowledge.
The illustrations which are introduced for tn
first time in the present edition have been dddc'
not for their sake of pictorial effect, but to Civ
greater lucidity and force to the explanations i
the text. They embrace all branches of scienc
and of natural history and depict the most famou
and remarkable features Of scenery, architectur
and art, as well rs the various processes Of me
chanics and manufactures. Although INTENDED
for instruction rather than establishment, n
pains have been spared to issue their artistic OK
cellcnce; the cost of their execution is enormous
and it is believed they will find n welcome recep
ton as an admirable feature of the Cyclopedia
and worthy of its high character.