Connecticut western news., 1877-03-30
APPLETON'S American CycIopadia.
NEW REVISED EDITION.

NEW REVISED EDITION.
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 The work originally published under the title of THE NEW AMERICAN CYoLoPRDIA was completed in 1863, since which time the wide circulation which it has attained in all parts of the United States, and the signal 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
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