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An Astronomical Diary,
OR, AN
ALMANACK
For the Year of our LORD CHRIST,
1741.
And from the CREATION fo the WORLD,
according to the best of prophane History, 5691
And by the Account of the Holy Scriptures 5643
Being the Year after Bissertile,
OR LEAP YEAR,
And the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of our
most gracious Sovereign King GEORGE, II
Wherein is contained, the Lunations, Eclipses of
the Luminaries, Aspects, Sun's Rising and
Setting, Time of High-Water, Courts, Spring
Tides, Judgment of the Weather, &c. [etc.}
Calculated for the Meridian of BOSTON in NEW-
ENGLAND, Lat. 42. Deg. 25 Min. North.
The Vulgar Notes for this Year 1741.
Golden Number 13 / Epact 23
Cycle of the Sun 14 / Dominical Letter D
By Nathanael Ames.
TIME is the Effect of motion, born a Twin,
And with the World did equally begin ;
Time lide a Sream that hastens from the Shore,
Flies to an Ocean where 'tis known no more,
All must be swallow'd in the endless Deep
And Motion rest in everlasting Sleep. Dryd. Ovid.
BOSTON in NEW ENGLAND;
Printed by John Draper, for the Booksellers, 1741

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McElheny

Bissertile refers to a leap year; epact refers to the age of the ecclesiastical moon.