Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-05-11

THE work originally published under the title Of
The NEW AMERICAS CVCLoPGDIA was COMPLETED i'm
1868, since which time the wide circu lation viii IA
II has attained Ia 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 su H.
init il to exact and thorough revision and t., a.
sne a new edition entitled IHG AMERICAN CYCLo-
PRDIA.
Within the last ten wears the progress of discov-
cry in every department Of knowledge has made .
work Of reference an imperative want
The movement of political affairs has kent mace
with the discoveries Of science, and their fruitful
application 20 the industrial and useful arts and
the convenience and refinement oc social life -
Great wars and cousequent revolutions have occur.
red involving national cahnges Of peculiar moment
The civil war of our own country, which was ut
its height when the last volume of the old work
appeared, has Happily been ended and new
course of commercial and industrial activity has
been commenced.
Large accessions to our geographical knowIedge
have been made by The indefaligable explorers Of
Africa.
The great political revelations OF the last decaae
with the national result of the LAPSE OF time have
brought into POblic view multitude ofnew non
whose names are in every ones mouth and of
whose lives every ore is curious to know tho rar.
ticalars. Great battles have been fought and i'm
poTiant sCiges maintained, OF which the dstuiIs 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 authen-
tic history.
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il has accordingly been the aim or the cLior, tn
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rinn' in tae practical arts we'll to give sue
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