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APPLETONS AMERICAN
GEGH4dpEH HiEsEA.
NEW REVISED EDITION.,
ENTIRELY REWRITTEN By THE ABIEST
WRITER'S ON EVERY SUBJECT
Printed from New Type, and Illustra,>
Ell with several thousand En-.
cravings and Maps.
APPLETON.S AMERICAN

THE work originally published under
the title of the New Amt rican CyclopmA
dia was commenced in 10 8, since wh:ch
time the wide circulation which it has
attained i'll all parts of the United States,
and the signal Developments which
nave t;kcn place in every branch of sci-
cncc, literature, and nrt, have induced
the editors and publishers to submit it to
al exact ana thorough revision, and to
issue new edition, entitled
THE AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA.
Within the last twenty years tho pro-
srcss of discovery in every department. Of
knowledge has made new work Of ref.
2rencc an imperative want.
The movement of political affairs has
kept pace with the discoveries of science,
and their fruitful application to the In
dustriul and useful arts and the conven-
icncc and refinement of social life. Great
wars and consequent revolutions havo
occurred, involving national changes of
peculiar moment. The civil war of our
own country, which was ~ its height
when the innt volume of the old work
appeared, has happily been ended, and n
new course of commercial and industrial
activity has been commenced
Large accossions to our Geographical
knowledge have bcen made.
The great political revolutions Of the last
decade, with tho natural result of tho
lapse Of time, have brought into public
view multitude of new men. whose
names are in every ones mouth, and Of
whose lives every one is curious TO know
the particulars. Great battles have been
fought and important sicses maintained,
of which tho details arc rs yet preserved
only in the newsl q pcrs or in tho tram
sicnt publications Of the day, but which
ought now to
Take thoir place in Permanent ord
Authentic History.
In preparing the prosent edition for tho
press, it has accordingly been the aim Of
the editors to bring down the informa-
ton to tho latcSt possible lntest and to
furnish an nccuracto account of the most
recent discoveries in science, OF every
fresh production in literature, and Of tn,
newest inventions in the practical arts
as we'll rs to give q Succint aud original
Record Of the Progress of Political and
Historical Events.
The work was begun after long and
careful preliminary labor, and with the
nc Il ample II sources for carrying il ON
to sue ,csstui termination.
None Of tho original stereotype plates
have been used, but
Every Page has been Printed OH New
Typo,
forming, in fact q now Cyclopmdia, with
the same plan and ,ompa $ as its prcdc-
coss0r, but with n fnr greater pccunary
expenditure, and with improvements in
its composition MS have been suggested
by longer experience and enlarged
knowledge.
The Illustrations which are Introduced
for tho first time
in the present edition, have beeh added
not for tho sake of pictorial effect, but to
give greater lucidity and force to tho ex.
PLANTATION i'll the text They embrace all
branches ct science and of natural history,
and depict tho most fsmous and romarl-
able features ofscenery. architecture, and
art, rs we'll rs the vn,ious Processes Of
mechanics and manufactures. Although
intended for instruction rathun than en-.
bellishment,
No Pains have heen spared to insure
their Artistic Excellence.
The cost Of thoir execution is enor-
nous, and it is believed they will find II.
welcome reception Ms m admirable lon.
ture of tho Cyclop@dia, and worthy ofits
high character. .r
The AMERICAN CYcLopEDIA is now COM
pleto in sixteen largo octave volumes,
each volume containing over eight hun.
drcd pagos, fully illustrated with several
thousand Wood Engravings, and with
numerous Colorcd Lithogmphic Maps,
the whole costing tho publishers a sum
exceeding livo hundred thousand dollars,
exclusive Of paper printing and binding.