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VOLUME 6. 

 CONTAINING ABOUT 1,5OO ARTICLES, 



( To be continued at intervals of three months^) 

 OF THE 



ENCYCLOPAEDIA AMERICANA: 



A 



POPULAR DICTIONARY 



OF 



ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND POLITICS 



BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME AND INCLUDING A COPIOUS 

 COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ARTICLES IN 



AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY: 



On the basis of the Seventh Edition of the German 



CONVERSATIONS-LEXICON. 



EDITED BY DR. FRANCIS LIEBER, 

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THE CONVERSATION LEXICON, of which the seventh edition in 

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 ated about fifteen years since. It was intended to supply a want 

 occasioned by the character of the age, in which the sciences, 

 arts, trades, and the various forms of knowledge and of active 

 life, had become so much extended and diversified, that no in- 

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 of information rendered such knowledge essential to the charac- 

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 were adequate to supply. Books treating of particular branch- 

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 while voluminous Encyclopaedias were too learned, scientific, 



