The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-11-02
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AMERICAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA.
New REVISED EDITION.

New REVISED EDITION.
Entirely rewritten by the ablcst writers on every
subject Printed from new type, and illustrat
ed with Several Thousand Engravings and Maps
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The work originally published under tho till,
of The New AMERICAN CYcLoPRDIA was complet
ed in 1868, sine, 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 publisher,
to submit it to an exact and thorough revision
and to issue a now edition entitled The AMERIcAS
CYCLoP1DIA.
Within the last ten years the progress Of dis.
covery in every department Of knowledge ha.
made a new work of reference an imperative
want.
The Increment Of political affairs has kept pace
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 tn,
old work appeared, has happily been ended, anc
new course of commercial and industrial activ
ty has been commenced.
Large accessions to our geographical knowledg,
| have been made by tho ndetatigable explorers o
| Africa.
| Tho great political revolutions of tho last de
cade, with the natural result Of the lapse Of time
have brought into public view multitude of new
men, whose names are in every ones mouth, an,
of whose lives every one is curious to know thu
particulars. Great battles have been fought an,
| important seiges maintained, of which the detail
are as yet preserved only in the newspapers or il
transient publications of the day but which ough
now to tako their place in permanent and authen
| tic history.
| In preparing the present edition for the press
| it has accordingly been the aim of the editors t,
bring down the information to the latest possibl,
| dates and to furnish accurate account Of thu
most recent discoveries in science, of every fresl
production in literature, and of the newest in
yentions in the practical arts, as well to Civ,
a succint and original record Of the progress ofpo
| litical and historical events.
The work has been begun after long and care
| iul preliminary labor, and with the most ampl,
resources for carving it ON to "A successful tormn
| alton.
None Of the original stereotype plates hay,
been used, but every page has been printed OF
| new type, forming in fact new CyelOp@dia, witt
| the same plan and compass as its predecessor, but
with far greater pecuniary expenditure, and
with such improvements In its composition a
have been suggested by longer experience and en-
lArged knowledge.
The illustrations which arc introduced for the
NO., G'r ,ba;r s'tp IF ,ctoriaI eject but 10 a,i,s
greater lucldlty ana force to the explanations IN
the text They embrace all branches Of science
anu oil natural history anu depict the most famous
and remarkable features oil scenery architecture
anu art as wen as tue various processes ol me,