The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-07-19

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TAk NEW AMERICAN ClcLofRpiA was conpiet
ed IN iso5, since which time the wide circulation
which 1t has attained in all parts of the United
States, and the signal Developments which nave
taken place In every branch oi science literature
and art, have induced the editors and publisher,
to submit to an exact and thorough revision. and
TO issue new edilion.entitiedI the AMERICAN CY-
cLoP 4KDIA-
Within the last ten years the progress OF dis
eovery In every department OF knowledge has
made u new work OF reference an Imperative
want.
The movement of political affairs has kept pace
with the discoveries OF science, and tieir fruitful
application 90 the industrial and useful arts, and
tine convenience and refinement OF social hie.--
Great waTs and consequent revolutions nave oc-
CURED, involving national changes OF peculiar mo-
ment The civil war OF cur own country, which
was ut It's height when the last volume OF the old
work appeared, has happily been ended, and a
new course OF commercial and industrial activity
has been commenced
Large aecessions TO our geographical knowledge
have been made by the interchangeable explorers oi
Africa.
The great political revolutions of the lastdecade,
with the natural result of the lapse oi time, have
brought into view multitude OF new men, whose
names are in every one smouth, and OF whose iises
every one is curious 10 know the particulars. Great
battles have been fought and important sieges
maintained OF which the details are MS yet pre-
served only IN the newspapers or IN the transient
pabic.ii ions OF the day, but which ought now 10
take their place In permanent and arthentie MS
tory.
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