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APPLETONS' AMERICAN
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NEV RETISED EDITION.
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" RETISED EDITION.

THE work originally published under
the title Of the New American Cyclopm-
dia was commenced in Is 8, since which
time tile wide circulation which it has
attained in all parts Of the United States,
and the signal developments which
have t. ken lta@c in every branch Of sci
cnco, literature, and art, have induced
an exact and thorough revision, and to
issue new edition, entitled
TIE AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA.
Within the last twenty years tho pro-
gross of discovery i'll every department. of
knowledge has m0do u new work Of rcf.
crcncc an imperative want. E'.
The movement of political affairs has
kept pace with the discoveries of science,
and theiy fruitful application to the in
dustriul and useful arts and the conyen.
ienco md refinement of social lif' Great
wars and consequent revolutio " havo
| occurred, involving national oh; ls,9 Of
peculiar moment. Tho civil war IT our
own country, which was at its lcight
when the iaat volume of tho old work
appeared, hns happily been ended, and q
new course of commercial and industrial
activity has been commenced.
| Large accessons to our Geographical
knowledge have boon made.
The great political revolutions of tho last
| dccndo, with tho natural result of tho
| lnpse Of time, havo brought into public
view Il multitude OF new men, whose
names arc in every ones mouth, md Of
| whose lives every ono is curious to know
| tho particulars. Great battles hnve been
| fought and important sieses maintained,
Of which the details aro MS yet preserved
only in tho newspapers or in tho tran
sient publications Of the day, but which
ought now to .' .'.
Tako their place in Permanent and
Authentic History.
In preparing the present edition for tho
press, it has accordingly been tho nim of
tho editors to bring down tho iniurmn-
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furnish M accurnctc account Of tho most
recent discoveries in science, Of every
fresh production in literature, and of tn,
newest inventions in tho practical arts
rs we'll as to give II Succint and original
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Historical Events. -ar .t
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and depict tho most famous nnd rcmnrl-
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plotc in sixteen largo octave volumes,
each volume containing over eight hun.
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thousand Wood Engmvings, md with
numerous Colorod Lithographio Maps,
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