Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-04-07


THE work originally published under the IT,
ns of THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPE-
Ola was completed in 1864, since which time
the wide circulation which it has attained in all
parts Of the United States, and tho signal de-
velopments which have taken place in every
duced the editors and publishers to submit it to
an exact and thorough revision, and to issue .
new edition entitle THE AMERICAN CY-
covery in every department of knowled ge has
made new work Of reference an imperative
want.
The movement Of political affairs has kept
pace with the discoveries of science, and their
fruitful application to the industrial and
full arts and the convenience and refinement OF
social life. Great wars and consequent re volu-
tons have occurred In volving national changes
of peculiar moment The civil war Of our own
country, which was at its height whom the last
volume Of the old work appeared: has happily
and inc asrrial activity has been commenced.
Large accessions TO our geographical knOwl-
ledge have been made by the indefatigabie OK
The great political revolutions Of the last de-
cade, with the natural result of the lapse OF
time, have brought into public view q multi
tude Of new men, whose names are in every
ones mouth. and of whose lives every one 10
curious to know the particulars. Great battles
have been fought and important sieges main.
tanned, Of which the details are as yet preserved
onIyIn the newspapers or in the transient pub
locations of the day, but which ought now to
history.
press 1t has accordingly been the aim of the
editors to bring down the Information to tho
latest possible dates, and to furnish an accu-
rate account of the most recent discoveries in
science. of every fresh production in literature,
and Of tho newest inventions In the practical
record of the progress of political and histori-
cal eventa.
| The work has been begun after long and
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| new type, forming in fact new CyclopediA,
cessor, but with a far greater pecuniary expen-
diture, and with such improvement In it, COM
position as have been suggested by longer OK
Derience and enlargedk nowledgo.
The fIlustratious which are introduced for the
| FIRST time in the present edition have been ad-
give greater iucidity and force to the explana-
| lions in the text. They embrace all branches
3fscience and of natural history, and depict the
| most famous and maxkable features obscene
| Y, architecture, and art, as well as the various
| Processes of mechanics and manufactures. Al
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| will find q welcome reception as an AZ
airable feature Of the Cyclopedia, and worthy
| II Its high character.
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