ENCYCLOPÆDIA AMERICANA:

SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME.

A

POPULAR DICTIONARY

OF

ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE, HISTORY,

POLITICS, AND BIOGRAPHY.

VOL. XIV.

EDITED BY

HENRY VETHAKE, LL. D.

VICE-PROVOST AND PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA *
MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY; AUTHOR OF
"A TREATISE ON POLITICAL ECONOMY,'

ETC.

BOSTON:

B. B. MUSSEY & CO.

1851.

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LEA AND BLANCHARD,

in the clerk's office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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