DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER. 195 



of the press was in reality tlie force of character of the individual 

 exerted through the instrument within his control. 



From 1830 to 1860 the progress made in the mechanical de- 

 partment of the business 



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was slow and unimpor- 

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 recent inventions. Cylin- 

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 eral use for the printing 

 of daily papers, but the 

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 a few hundred copies per 

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 white paper used was still 

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 most of the material was 

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 greatly retarded its devel- 

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 editors and publishers were 

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 suggest improvements in 

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of 



Blair's Sermons, 



Do. Lectufes, 

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 ' Nature. 

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American Preacher, 

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Greece, 

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 Hornes' S^tches of the 



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 Smith's Wealth of Na- 

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 Tajplin's Farriery, 

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 JcCersqn's Notes, (hot- 

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 Porter's Antiquities, 

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 Court of Berlin, 

 Boureannts' History of 



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 Burk's Works, 

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 Boil on V.'ounds, 

 System of Anatomy, 

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London Practice of Phy- 

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 Durnford and East's Re- ■ 

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Blac kstonc's Cbmmenta- 



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 Reports of Cases argued 

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 in Hilary Tt rm, in , 

 the lorty-first -year of 

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 lOOlj by E. Hyde 

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 Park on Insurance, 

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 American Coast Pilot, 

 Jackson's Book-keep- 

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A Emukselli:i;'# .Vdvektiskmext from the New 

 York Evening Post of Frid.w, December 11, 

 1801. 



