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(Winter and Autumn)

66 South 66 Length of the tropical year, commencing at the winter solstice, 1830, and ending at the winter solstice, 1831 Mean or average length of the tropical year

EMBER DAYS.

186 11 6 50.5

178 18 48 52.8

365 5 55 43.3

365 5 48 47.8

February 23d, 25th, and 26th. | September 21st, 23d, and 24th.
May 25th, 27th, and 28th.

December 14th, 16th, and 17th.

MOVABLE FESTIVALS OF THE CHURCH IN 1831.

Septuagesima Sunday, January 30.
Quinq. or Shrove Sunday, Feb. 13.
Ash Wed., 1st day of Lent,"
Mid-Lent Sunday,

Palm Sunday,

Easter Day,

Low Sunday,

Rogation Sunday,

Rogation Monday,
Tuesday,

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May 9.

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Ascension Day,

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Whitsunday, or Pentecost,
Trinity Sunday,

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April 3.

Corpus Christi Day,

June 2.

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Advent Sunday,

Nov. 27.

May 8.

JEWISH CALENDAR.

The Fasts or Feasts marked with an asterisk are strictly observed.

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Appearance of the Sun, at the apparent Conjunction of the Sun and Moon, in the Eclipse of the 12th of February, at Petersburg, Va., Cahawba, Siasconset, Halifax, and all other places where the Sun is centrally, or very nearly centrally, eclipsed.

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Appearance of the Sun, at the greatest Obscuration, at Natchez, Nashville, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, New Haven, Hartford, Boston, New Bedford, Portsmouth, Portland, and all other places where the Sun will be about 11 digits eclipsed on his South Limb.

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ECLIPSES OF THE SUN AND MOON IN 1831.

There will be two eclipses of the Sun, viz. on the 12th of February and 7th of August. The former will be annular, and the latter total.

There will be two eclipses of the Moon also, both partial; viz. on the 26th of February and 23d of August.

I. Annular eclipse of the Sun on Saturday, February 12th, visible throughout the United States.

[In the computation of this eclipse, Carlini's tables, corrected by the formulæ of Professor Bessel, were used for the Solar elements, and the tables of Damoiseau for the elements of the Moon. Damoiseau's tables were preferred to those of Burckhardt and Burg, not only from the circumstance that they are of later date, but because the apparent latitude of the Moon in this eclipse, deduced from these tables, is very nearly the mean of that deduced from the other two, as will be seen by turning to the phases of the eclipse at Nantucket, Halifax, and Boston; the difference, however, between them amounts to a very few seconds only, especially in the longitude. The elements of the eclipse, as given by these tables respectively, will be found in the Appendix to this part. They were computed twice with great care, for February 12th, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th hours, for the meridian of Paris, and thence interpolated for every quarter of an hour for the meridian of Greenwich.

The ellipticity of the Earth was considered one three-hundredth; according to which quantity the equatorial parallax of the Moon was invariably diminished, and the latitude of each place reduced.

In computing the paths of the different digits, and of the contact of the limbs, the augmentation of the Moon's diameter, on account of her altitude was taken into consideration. The diameter of the Sun was diminished 7'' for irradiation. The Moon's motion was not considered uniform throughout the eclipse, as is sometimes done, but her actual distance from the Sun in Right Ascension, and the difference of their declinations, were made use of in each computation.]

The Longitudes are reckoned from Greenwich.

The Longitude of Washington in time is 5h. 7m. 42s.

Phases of the General Eclipse.

The eclipse will first be visible in the North Pacific Ocean.

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Latest termination of the eclipse in the Atlantic Ocean, near the Western Islands.

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Duration of the entire eclipse for the whole earth 5h. 2m. 49s.

Path of the Central Eclipse, that of the contact of the Limbs, and of several of the Digits.

[By the tables of Burckhardt, these paths will pass about 6 miles farther north, and by those of Burg, about 6 miles farther south.]

The Sun will not be eclipsed less than six digits, on his south limb, in any part of the Earth; but the path of six digits, on his south limb, will be almost exactly in contact with the Earth, at sunrise, at Oh. 15m. A. Mean Time at Washington, in Latitude 70° N., Longitude 124° W.

Path of 9 Digits eclipsed on the South Limb.

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The path of nine digits begins in the north Pacific Ocean, passes over the northern or internal provinces of the Republic of Mexico, the Missouri and Northwest Territories of the United States, Lake Superior, Upper Canada, Labrador, and Davis' Straits, and ends with the setting of the Sun in Greenland.

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