The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-02-11
APPLETON'S
AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA.
New Revised Edition

New Revised Edition.
Entirely rewritten by the ablest writer's on every
subject. Printed from new type, and illustrated
With Several Thousand Engruvings and Maps.
The work originally published under the title Of
s63. since which time the wide circulation whch II
has attained In all purts Of the United States and
the signal developments which have taken place In
every branch Of science. literature, and art have In
dnced the editors and publishers To submit IL to an
exact and thorough revision. and to issue new sdi-
tion vnttIed The AMERICAN crcLoP4iiA.
Within the last ten years the progressed discovery
In every department Of knowledge has made new
work oi reernce an imp. rative want.
The movement Of political affairs has kept pace
with ths oil 'covsres oil science, and their fruitful ap-
plicaton to this Industrial and uaefu arts and the
convenience and rcdhemsnt Of social life. Great
wars and consequent revolutions have occurred In
v0ving national changes OF peculiar moment. The
civil war VI our own country, which 1T it, height
when the last volume Of the old work appeared has
happily been ended, and new cour.e Of CONNER.
Large accessicns to our geographical knowledge
have been made by the indefatigabe explorers Of
Africa. 1856. N'
The great political revolutions Of the aYt decade
with the natural result OF the lapse OF time have
brought into public view a multitude Of new linen,
whosc names are In very ones mouth and Of whose
lives every ne 10 curious TO know the particulars
Great battles have been fought and Imp rtant segss
maintained, OF which the details preserved
Ton. of th, Iay. 6nt Which ought now =, t,ts ,h.i,
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hss according. been the aim the EDITORS to bring
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practical arts as well as to give succnc and orig
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sveats.
preliminary labor, and with the most annie re-
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experience, and enlarged know ledge
The illustrations which are introduced for the irst
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tRre OF scenery, architecture aud art a M the
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10 enormous, andit II believed they will find a vel
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