Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-06-08

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THE work originally published under the title OF
/ TIE NEw AMERICAN CYCLOPRDIA 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 sub
init il to exact and thorough revision and t. IS
sne new edition entitled The AMERICAN CYCLIC
PaDGA.
within the last ten wears the progress of discov-
cry in every department of knowledge has made Il
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 aud
the convenience and refinement o. social life
Great wars and consequent revolutions have occur
red, involving national cahDgrs of peculiar moment
The civil war Of our oTn country, which was at
its height when the last volume of the old work
appeared, has happily been ended, and new
course of commercial ard industrial activity has
been commenced.
Large accessions to our geographical knowledge
have been made by the interchangeable explorers Of
Africa.
The great political revolutions Of the last decade
with the national result of the lapse of time have
brought into poblic view a multitude of new mon
whuee names are in every ones month and Of
whose lives every ore is curious to know the par
ticulars. Great battles have been fought and i'm
pOrtaHt seIgCS maintained, of which the datails are
yet preserved only in the newspapers or In the
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 tho press,
ii has accordingly been the aim OF the editors to
bring down the information to the latest possible
dates, and 70 fa1Hish accurate account Of the
most recent discoveries in science. of every fresh
productio in literature and Of the new est inven-
tiOns in the practical arts well to give sue
cinet and original record of the progress Of political
and historical events.
The work has beeu begun after long and careful
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ton
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composition as have been suggested by longer ex-
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greater acldiy and force to the explanation in the
text. They embrace all bTanches q science and
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