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 American CycIop@dia.
NEW REYIsED EnITION

'aSt NEW REVISED EDITION.
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 The work originally published under the title of HE NEw AMERICAN CYcLoPEDIA WAS completed in 1863, since which time the wide circulation which it has attained in all parts of the United States, and the eignal 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 new edi- tion, entitled the -..s.. . ..45
 The American CycIopadia.
 Within the last ten years the progress of dis oovery in every department of knowledge has made new work of reference an imperative want. The movement of political affairs has kept place with the discoveries of science and their fruitful application to the indnstrial and useful arts and the convenience and refine ment of social life. Great wars and conse- quent revolutions have occurred, involving national changes of peculiar moment. The civil war of our own country, which was at it's height when the last volume of the old work course of commercial and industrial activity has been commenced. Large accessiops to our 7,t'-s --..... .rt f.r..--g-..
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 Have been made by the indefatigable explorers ot Africa. The great political revolutions of the Last decade, with the natural result of the lapse of time, have brought into public view multitude or new men, whose names are in every ones mouth, and of whose lives every one ia 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 Permanent and Authentic History. In preparing the present edition for the press it has accordingly been the sim of the editors to bring down the information to the latest possible dates, and to furnish an &C., curate account of the most recent discoveries in science of every fresh production in .htera- I ture, and of the newest inventions in the practical arts, as we'll as to give 8 succinct and original record of the progress of ...
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