Connecticut western news., 1877-04-27
APPLETON'S American Cyclop@dia.

NEW REVISED EDITION.
 ENTIRELY REWRITTEN BY THE ABLEsT
 WRITERS ON EVERY SUBJECT.
 orjnted from Ne,o Type, and Illustrated ,Dith
 Seosral Thousand Engrduings and Maps.
 The work originally published under the title of THE NEW AMERICAN CYCL0PRDA was ompleted in 1863, since which time the wide ,irculstion which it has attained in all parts of 5he United States, and the signal developments which have taken place in every branch of science, literature and art, have induced the sditors and publishers to submit it to an exact and thorough revision, and to issue new edi- tlon, entitled the -...=..
 The American CycIopadia.
 Within the last ten years the progress of dis made a new work of reference an imperative want The movement of political affairs has kept pace with the discoveries of science and 5heir fruitful application to the industrial and useful arts and the convenience and refine ment Of social life. Great wars and coDse- 1uent revolutions have occurred, involving national changes of peculiar moment. The civil war of our own country, which was ct its height when the last volume of the old work appeared, has happily been ended, and new course of commercial and industrial activity ,as been commenced. Large accessions to our --.. I'M
 GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE Have been mad .1y tna in etsttgable explorera of Africa. The great political revoiutions of | tho last decade, with the natural result of the | iapse of tinle have brought into public view . | multitude of new men, whose names arc tn | avery onea mouth, and of whose lives every one is.anxious to know the particulars. G2eaa | battle, have been fought and importantsiegee 'n n4intaintd, of which the details are as yet l presery ed only ia the newspapers or in the transient publications of the day, but Whtcn l Il, Gt Low ID take their place in 'ers anent and Au hentie History.
 In preparing the present edition for the r. es iG has accordingly been the aim Of the [ sutors to bring down the information to the ateet possible dates, and to furnish an an- 'urate account cf the most recent discoveries n science, of every fresh production in htera- ure, and of the newest inventions In the ,racticsl srts. as well assto give 6 succtnct and rigin.l ecord of the progress of
 POLITICAL & HISTORICAL EVENTS.
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 PRINTED ON NEW TYPE,
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 THE ILLUSTRATIONS,
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 ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE.
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