Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-19

Illustrated with several Thousand Engra-
wings and Maps.
THE work originally published under the IT,
tls of fhE NEW MEnICAN CYCLOPH-
DlA was completed in 1864 since which time
the wide circulation which it has attained in all
parts OF tn United states, and the signal de-
velOPments which have taken place in every
branch of science, literature, and art, have in
duced the editors and publishers to submit it to
an exact and thorough revision, and to issue
new edition entitle THE AMERICAN CY-
yLOPEDIA.
within The last ten years the progress of dis
covery in ev@rv department of knowledge hat
made a new work of reference an imperative
want.
The movement OF political affairs has KEEP:
pace with the discoveries of science, and then
fruitful application to the industrial and use
fnl arts and the convenience and refinement of
social life. Great wars and consequent re yolu-
lions have occurred. il volvn national changes
of peculiar moment The civil war of our own
country, which was at its height when the Last
volume of the old work appeared, has happily
been ended, and q new course OF commerciaI
and industrial activity has been commenced.
Large aecessions to our geographical knowl-
ledge have been made by the indefatigable ex-
plorers of Africa
The great political revolutions of the last de
cade, with the natural result of the lapse OF
time, have brought into public view multi
tude of new men, whose names are In every
mes mouth, and of whose lives every one lie
urious to know the particulars. Great battles
lined, of which the details are as vet preserved
Unlyln the newspapers or in the transient pub
locations of the day, but which ought now tc
take their place i'll permanent and AUTHENTIC
history.
n preparing the present edition for ths
press, it has accordingly been the aim of the
editors to bring down the Information to the
latest possible dates, and to furnish an accu-
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science, OF every fresh production in literature;
arts, as well as to give succint and origina
record Of the progress OF political and hlstori-
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fun Termination.
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position have been suggested by longer eX
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