Author, U: Popular Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge

Excerpt from The Popular Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge: A Complete Library of Useful Information for the Masses, Embraced in the Subjects of History, Biography, Natural History, Travels, Manners and Customs, Manufactures, Vegetation, Invention and Discovery, Mining, the Sea, Familiar Science, Etc., Etc

The object is to present for family reading a book which will interest and entertain the most careless reader and at the same time fill his mind with knowledge of the most useful character - a book which may be taken up at random, as in idle moments, and read with interest and profit by all classes and conditions of mankind. Few men or women are so well informed that they will not learn much that is of real interest and value to them from this book. Herein is information for the curious, knowledge and facts for those who seek them, self education for old and young.

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