Connecticut western news., 1876-11-03
APPLET0N's American CycIop@dia.

t-. NEW REVISED EDITION.
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 The work originally published under the title of THE NEW AMERICAN CYcLoPRDIA was completed in 1868, since which time the wide circulation which it has attained in all parts of the United States, Andthe 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 a new edi- tion, entitled the ..s raE7. q. e-
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 BIOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE 5 Have been made by the indefatigable explorers of Africa. The great political revolutions of the last decade, 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 anxious to know the particulars. Great battles have been fought and important sieges maintained, of which the details are as yet preserved only in the newspapers or in the transient publications of the day, but which ought now to take their place in
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