Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-10-24
APPLETON'S
American CyclOpadia
New Revised Edition.

subject Printed from new type. and illustrated
with Several Thousand EngrAy.ng and Maps.
The work originally published under the title Of
TuE NEW AMTrICN ~ CNCLorEpfN was completed
Ia ls,B. iucc which time the Wide circulation which
70 has attained 10 all paTt- Of thc United states and
The signal Developments which have taken place In
every branch OF science, literature, and art, have
induced the editor and publishers To submit II TO m
exact AMI thorough revision, and - issue new
edition entitled TIE AMERICAN CYCLOFEDIA.
within The last ten year, the progress of discoy-
c. in every department Of knowledge has made
erw work OF reference an imperative want
The movement OF political Affairs has kept pace
with the Cl~coVctics Of :, icucc and their iruiti
application % the industrial and useful arts and ~
cSDycn .cucC of andrcincmc't o. s0clallitc. Gre
wars and consequent revolutions have OccuuL
involving national changes of peculiar moment
The civil war nl oar own country, which WAS AZ Us
height when the last volume Of the old work appear.
cd ,has happily ended and new course OF CONNER
I CiIl and industrial activity has been commenced.
Large access ions 10 our ga lhicgl knowledge
have been made by The interchangeable cNplOr'rs "
Africa
with the natural result of the lapse OF time, have
b brOugh! into public view q multitude Of ncW men
whose names are in every ones mouth and OF whose
lives every one is curious 10 know the particular
Great battles have been fought and important
seges maintained OF which the details are rs yet
preserved only In the newspapers or IN the trans
lent publications of the day, but which ought now
10 take thc!s place in permanent and authentl
history.
In preparing the present edition for the press 1t
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down the information % the latest possible dates,
and 70 furnish an accurate account OF the most re-
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| tOriCai events.
The work has been begun altGr long and careful
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| forming in fact new Cyclop@diI, with the same
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| greater pecunary expenditure, and with such I'M
! prOycmcuts in its composition as have been sug-
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The Illustrations which are introduced for the
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| not for the sake OF pictorial eject, but to give
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the text. They embrace all branches Ol science and
of natural history, and depict the most famous aud
remarkable features of scenery, architecture and
art well as the var!- Us processes OF mechanics
and manufactures. Although intended ior Inslruc'
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