Connecticut western news., 1876-09-15
APPLETON'S
 American CycIop@dia.

NEW REVISED EDi-I1N. ENTIRELY REWRITTEN BY THE ABLEsT
 WRITERS ON EVERY SUBJECT. Printed from Neso Type, and Illustrated ,oith
 Seueral Thousand Engrdoirgs and Maps.
 The work originally published under the title of THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLoPEDIA was completed in 1863, since which time the wide circulation which it has attained in all parts of the United @sates, and the signal developments which have taken place ill every branch ul science literature and art, have induced the editors and publishers to submit it to an exact and thorough revision, and to issue 8 new edi- tion, entitled the
 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 industrial and useful arts and the convenience and refine ment of social life Great wars and coDse- quent revolutions have occurred, involving national changes of peculiar moment. The olvil war of our own country, which as at it's height when the last volume of the old work appeared, has happily been ended, and new course of commercial and industrial activity has been commenced. Large accessions to our
 BIOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE Have been made by the inc efatgable 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 8 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
 Permanent and Authentic History. 1 In preparing the present edition for the press it has accordingly been the aim of the | editors to bring d, VII the information to the latest possible dates, and to furnish an &C., l curate account of the most recent discoveries in science, of every fresh production in litera- l ture, and of the newest inventions in the practical arts, as we'll to give 8 succinct and original record of the progress of
 POLITICAL & HISTORICAL EVENTS. The work has been begun after long and , careful preliminary labor, and with the most ample resources for carrying it to 8 successful 1 termination. None of the original stereotype plates have been used, but every page has | been
 PRINTED ON NEW TYPE,
 Forming in fact new Cyclopedia, with the same plan and compass as it's predecessor but with far greater pecuniary expenditure, and | With such improvements in it's composition as have been sue gested by longer experience and enlarged knowledge.
 THE ILLUSTRATIONS,
 Which are introduced for the first time in the present edition have been added, not for the sake of pictorial effect. but to give greater lucidity and force to the explanations in the text. They embrace all branches of science and natural history, and depict the most famous and remarkable features of scenery, architec- ture and art, well as the various process ot mechanics and manufactures. Although in tended for instruction rather than embellish- ment, no pains have been spared to insure their