.fl_lmanac,· FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD t822· . ' Tl;J E SECO!iD Al'TER. LEAP YEAR-AND AFTER THE FOURTH Oi' .JUL~ Oalculatedf or the N eri1ian, and adapted to the Latitude of Natche!, lat. 31• 33' North, long-. 14°•25• West of Washington, and 90Q Wut of Greenwich - and will serve from the mouth of Ohio to New Orleans. With the usual Astronolllical Calculations. Laurea Flaminibus, q--nre toto perstitit aono, Tollitur, et frondes ! uot in honore nova:.- Ov11>. ~W:**4::tll l l l II lllfllllJl+l ll ....+#IJllllll 1111 I IIIII I lllltl l lllllllllllllltM4£111111 U .. BY REV. H . FROST, A. M • ..............tlltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll+lltlll J i1111 llftllllllllllllllllllftllllllllff NATCHEZ, J,IlSS. PRINTED AND SOLD BY AN DREW MA RSCHALK-ALSO SOLD BY SNODGRASS AND WH I TNEY. re: :e: : Our Almanac! in the United States, beiQg very much re;ulated by the l English Calendar, it is common to insert the feasts, festivals, and fasts of the Church of England, such ·as Easter, W hit-Sunday, &c. We have therefore thought p:-oper to favor our patrons with the following expla­ EXPLANATION OF CHARACTERS. nations:- EASTER-A day obsened ·in commemoration of our Saviour's resur­ SIGNS o'F O T I E SuN, EB EARTH, THE ZOD.IAC. rection. The-appellation is derived from the Saxon ) Tm. MooN, I MARS, Eostre, which denoted a festival kept In honor of a .o. Liura, ~ MERCURY, 1f. Jur1T1::R, r Aries, Saxon goddess. The,Greek pa•c4a is translated Eas­ ~ VENUS, f., SATURN, ts Taurus, 111. Scorpio, ,er, as well as, passover. The Passover was kept by c5 CoNJUNCTION-lnJ. Inferior. Gemini, t Sagittarius, the Jews on the day of the Full Moon, next after the 8 Orros1T10N-Sup, Superior. n Cancer, i,J, Capricornus, vernal equinox Retro. Retrograde. 2D WwT•St1NDAY....;.The feast of Pentecost, called Whit or White-Sun­ Leo, ::: Aquarius, Im. Immersion.· SI. day, because the subjects baptized on that day were Em. Emersion, ffJt Virgo, )( Pisces, dressed in white. t E!ilT.,_Tt;e qua<lragesimal fast. Ash-Wednesday, the first day ci( . Lent. Shrove-tide the Tuesday befo re Lent. .Ito.VENT-A day observed in E XPLANATION-- OF TERMS. commemoration of the coming of our Saviour, and considered a preparath'e for our Saviour's . .ASTRONOMY-Derived from the Greek astron a star, and no,nos a nativity, being just four weeks before Christina?, law . •• Pr.ANET-From Latin planeta, and Greek planetes , a wa n<lerei:. AroGEE- The moon's g reatest distance from the Earth. CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES FOR 1822. PERIGEE-T he moon's nearest apprnach to the Earth. APH ELION-The Earth's greatest distance from the Sun. Dominica! Letter • • • , • F ~ Accord. to the LXX 5872 B. C. PERJ PHE LJON-The Earth's least distance from the Sun. Golden ~ umber . , •• , 18 Accord. lo the Sa- ' ErAcT- For a year is.the age of the Moon at the beginning of the Epact .- -: • ••• :--: , -'J- ---......maritan • . • 4700 B. C. year, from the last mean conjunction of the Sun and Solar Cycle •• , • • ll - Crucifi-;tion-of C.b1:ist, Moon. Roman Indiction , •• 10 Juliau period, 4746 Julian Period ••• • 6535 Jewi~h year •••• 354 Days DoMINIC.tL LETTER- One of the seven letters used in the Calendar, Rabbinical Period •• 5582 Egy ptian year .. , 365 " nece~sarily stands against Sunday, and is hence called Usherian Period , , 5826 Arabic & Turkish. , 354 " the Dominical L etter. ·C reation, Usher and Grecian ••• • •. 354 " Heb. text . ~ . 4004 B. C. Mode10 •.. .. 365 f' Cvcu-A circulation or revolution of a certain number of years. I.N01cT10N-A revolution of fifteen years, indicating the times of -- certain payments made by the Roman subject~ to the ASCENDING. NODE OF THE PLANETS FOR. 1822. Republic. § 16° 12' Jl" in TAuRus. 'lf. 8° 27' 12" in CANCE.R,. GoLDEN N'!!MBER-The Lunar Cycle. ,i 15° 5' 12" in GEMJNI. I T, 22° 9' 44" in CANc&r: . -a 18° JJ ' 56" in T AURt1s. Hers. 12° 57' 32" in GEMINI. SouTHING-The time when the Moon, a Planet, or Star, passes the meridian of a place. APHELIA OF T HE PLANETS FOR 18~2. s 8 5° 2· 48 • 38. TWILIGHT-ls that faint light which appears before the Sun rises f 8° }4' 4)" 28. I 6° J '1f. l' 30" 48. and afte r the Sun sets, arising from the refraction and ~ 10° 8' 4.5" 1. r, 8° 29' 28" 24. r eflection of the Sun's rays by the atmosphere. It is fl, 3° 9' 30'' 31. Hers. 11° 17' 23'' 2&. longer in summer because the heat of the day raises more vapour. MISS. DEPT. OF · ARCHIVES&. HISTOR Y The Astronoinical or natura'I day begins at noon, a t the insta ut when the Sun's centre is on the M eridian, the beginning of which bt T he ~fetonic Cycle consists of nearly 19 y ears, in wliich time. ~ e Moon~ Nodt1!> make a comple ~ the same in all latitudes not being subject to parallax or refrac0 te retroc•rade re\·olution. N'r w if we add th M · I 1 '' tion. h' . e eton1c c ye e, to 1803, it "'b rings u;; to th e y ear 1822 The Arabians begin their day at noon. w ~ch 1s of course the last y ear of the cycle, and the y ear in The Babylonians, Persians, Syrians, and most oftbe Eastern na­ wbic?, the ~oon will return very nearly to the same laces and t ions begin their day at sun rising. relat,o~s which she occupied in 1803. The place of ftie Moon's The Athenians, Jews, Austrians, Bohemians, SilesiaQs, Italians. ascending Node f~r ttie first day ~f_January 1822, is 2 70 in Aquari­ and Chinese at sun setting. us. In the following ta hie, the rmng and s etting difference o f t he The Egyptians, Homans, E'nglish, French, Germans, Dutch, M_oon on ~he parallel of Natchez for January 1822, is determined Spanish, and Portuguese, at midnight. with particular reference !o, the abo1·e r e1·olution of the Moon'; ~o~des, The ~ethods wl11ch we have adop!t:d to complete these d1tierences or mtervals, have all brought out nearly the same re­ sults. 'l'he 'fable of the Moon's Rising and selling <liff'erence, in our .Almanac for one thousand eight hundred and twenty one; was cal- culated according to Ferguson's example for the parallel TABLE of Lon- J.­ Sh , 1 R TABLE of ./ltmvspheric clian- ewing t 1e ising & Settin000 d11!'ereace of the Moon don. We ha,·e since, however, by several processes, obtained re- fc • ge,. sults of some minutes difference. Our exertions have arisen ( as we or .·anuary 1822, in lat. 31° 30' Froru 16'22 trust is evident) from a desire to see the theory of the moon better -D-.M-.,-s""'.--=o'"'.,H. diff. M.110.M., s. u.,H· dilT'. l\f. I' to 1658 There understood: To establish this theory has long been a desideratum w · were four 1 l ts OOlsett, II in Astronomy, and although renounced by some as a vain pursuit, afff. 171 t 21 1 5 periods of 2 14/ 00 ii5 lj t8 15 I 00 cold wea- yet we are confident that it may be accomplished, so for as to pre- z., , 3 27100 58, 19 28 00 th~r, vent any one's being liable to the imputation of mere guessing.­ 55 of 9 4 n JO J 2 201}1' 12 00 55 From 1784yrse Almanacs, in this article, may be calculate\! on vny good princi- ' ach, 5 23 1 10 2 J 23 sett. diff. 17 ples, but not such as will 'insure an accurate and unexcr,ptionable j 93 6 2o 7 1 1 10 22 . .: 7 l 15 180.i result. In saying this, however, we do not wish to offer ours a as 7 ris. dif. 23 20 I to 1811 There model of perfection, but only as an 191 00 effort towards it. 'fhe precise 8 St. 3 1 00 24 )( 3'. were four time of 1 00 the moon's rising and setting at any place, 1s admitted to he 9 )6 J 00 2S 16, SO periods of the very moment of time when the moon's centre is on the horizon 10 29 55 2· 6 ""' 00 I warm wea- of that place. The precise ..- JO ther, of 9 time of the moon's rising may therefore II I "ll 13 1 5 27 )3 50 y'rs, each, be very different from the time when tbe moon makes her appear- · 12 25 •55 28 26 OO These periods cor- ance in the tops of our trees. The varying influence or action of 13 ~ 9 J 00 , 2.9 H 9 respond very weU the Sun, the Earth and Planets upon the moon, during the Melonie !14 ci31 , MORN, with the Lunar Cy- ,:; .MORN. 30 22 1 cycle, or during nearly nineteen years. occasions a constant varie• "-..\ 5 cle the 9 years cycle .., J5 ftt 5 00 55 131 U 6 J JO of Venus, aad the cy- !y in the times of the moon's rising and selling during that perio~. I 1 1 16 18 I 00 :: :::::::: ::::::::::::::: cles. of the heavenly The action of the !Un alone upon the moon, though very great, will -~--''-------_.;.bod1esgenerally, not account for all those wonderful inequalities which are observed A TRUE MERIDIAN LINE. in the moon's motion. The greatest difficulty which aHends the The following are the ~1ost approved and most practical methods of solution of these phenomena of the moon, consists in determining drawing a true Meridian Line, the i:,recise degree or effect of the Sun or a Planet's influence.