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Re-Issue of the Encyclopædia Metropolitana,

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UNIVERSAL HISTORY, from the EARLIEST ACCOUNTS of MANKIND to the PEACE OF 1815.
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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Editor of the present Volume having been also one of the original editors of the Encyclopædia, and contributor of several of the miscellaneous articles, it might be supposed that he could have furnished the names of each writer to the publishers; but at this distance of time he has forgotten many. It has been determined, therefore, to issue this edition in the same anonymous form as at first. Of the article MOSES, and some others, he can with certainty claim the authorship; and has now added the Seventeenth Chapter, on "The Illustrious Women of Ancient Israel." The Index and other minor improvements will, he trusts, be found to enhance the value of this edition.

F. A. C.

HACKNEY, March, 1850.