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Calculated for the Use of the State Of 8i7.3M31 ARTW^rr^ Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from University of IVIassachusetts, Boston http://www.archive.org/details/pocl<etalmanacl<fo1781amer 1^ Pocket Almanack \ \ 4 ^ For the Year of our LORD f \ 1781- f firft after Lea|i Year, i Being the ^ f A N D T K E 4 ? Fiftk of American Independence t Cilculaud for the Ufc 4 OF THB tg Commonwealth f I Majfachufetts : \ I IN I f Latitude 42. 30. North. i i LoQgvtade 69. 29. W. from London, h t i BOSTON f Irinted and Sold by T.&X FLEE Tj I < aad I at the Jii/<f Htgrt m CornhiU. f ETLiIPSES in the Year 1781. THERE will be only two Eclipfea thi« Year, anri thofe arc both of the Sun. The firft will be on the Twenty-third Day of April, at half after Twelve at Noon j and though it will bi but fma!l Eclt, fc lo us, jet in fume Parts of the Weft Indies lit will be central. I: will happen in the 4th Deg^-^f Tejur*;. The fecond wtli ke on the Seventeenth Day oi 0/iooer, at half aftei Four m the Morning, and tho,* invifible to us will be a very p.eat Eclipfe in fome parts of the World, It will ha,)pcn in the Twenty-fifth D«grce of the Ccleftial Ballance. Nam« and Chara<acrsof the fcven Planets Th« Sun which is nctt propcri-y a Pianct, but of the nature of a fixed Stsr. y Mercury^ which moves round t he Sua to eighty cigh: days, and the oearcft Planet to it. 5 Venus^ next above Mercury, and mofcs round the SuiJ in about two hundred andtwcnty five days. The Earthy next above Venos, moving round the Sun in three hundred and ftxry five days. (found the Earth 9 The MoonJ movinff in twenty <igbt day;, and going with it round the Sun. ^ Mars, next above the Earth, moves round the Sue. in f« hundred and eighty fcven days. T^. "Jupitert-ntx^ ab.ve {vlars,, moves lound the Suu in four thoufand three hundred and thirty days, is the largeftof all the Planets, and attended by fourMoons. jupitcr, and Jj Saturn, nixt above not fo large, is at- tended w«th five Mt'ons, moves mund the Sun in abou: one thoufand fevco hundred & fifty one d^ys,. TJis twelve Sid^^. the Ram. Librae thi'S B?' lance. <y» Arietj [ ^. Scorpio, y Tauruiy the Bull. , rri the ocvi;pi6nc U Gemini, the Twiof, t Sagitariui, tLe Archer, S5 Cgncdr, th^ Crab, ' >f X^apricorrtuSf (he Goat, Si Lio, the Lion, i -CC? Ajt/arius, iheWatciBear- i'li Virgo, the Virgin, ij X Pj/cfs, the Fifhe^ (n, An E NI G M A. 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