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Digits eclipsed 11° 20'. D's Ap. Lat. at Nearest Ap. 50" North. This Eclipse will probably be annular in Boston, and in some part of New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.

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Digits eclipsed at Sunrise 1° 39'; at Greatest Obs. 5° 31′ on Sun's South

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Digits eclipsed 2° 34' on Sun's North Limb.

The eclipse will not extend to the Southern States, and will not be

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Digits eclipsed 6° 12′ on Sun's North Limb.

This is the third return of the total eclipse of June 16th, 1806.

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Digits eclipsed at Sunrise 1° 51'; at Greatest Obscuration 4° 22′ on Sun's South Limb.

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Digits eclipsed 8° 18′ on Sun's South Limb.

This eclipse will be annular in the States of North and South Carolina; at Charleston the ring will last 6 minutes.

This is the third return of the Eclipse of September, 1811, which was annular in Virginia.

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Part eclipsed 0° 31' on Sun's North Limb.

South of Connecticut there will be no eclipse, and no central eclipse in any part of the Earth.

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Digits eclipsed 10° 14' on Sun's South Limb.

This eclipse will be total in North Carolina and Virginia.

*1873. May 25th.

The Sun and Moon will be in contact at Sunrise; but the Sun will be eclipsed to places at a greater distance from the Equator, and in less longitude from Greenwich.

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Ap. Lat. of the Moon at N. Ap. 29" North.

Digits eclipsed at Sunrise 7° 14′ at N. Ap. 11° 25'

This eclipse will be annular in Boston and in some part of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont.

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Digits eclipsed 7° 23′ on Sun's South Limb.

This eclipse will not be total in any part of the United States, but probably will be so, in the island of Cuba.

This is the fourth return of the total eclipse of June 16th, 1806.

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Digits eclipsed at Sunrise 2° 46′; at Greatest Obscuration 5° 29′ on Sun's North Limb. This eclipse cannot be central in any place.

At the time of this eclipse the Sun and Moon are very nearly at their least possible distance from the Earth.

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Digits eclipsed 8° 11' on Sun's North Limb.

The Sun will probably be centrally eclipsed in the Canadas and Labrador.

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Digits eclipsed 11° 1' on Sun's South Limb.

The Sun will be totally eclipsed in the State of Virginia.

It is supposed that the only similar Catalogue now extant is the one computed for Paris, from the old lunar tables of Mayer, by M. Vaucel, at the request of Louis XV, and published in the fifth Vol. of the " Mémoires de Mathématique et de Physique. Paris, 1768."

Vaucel's Catalogue commences with 1767, and ends with 1900. By this it appears, that the only eclipse nearly central at Paris, in all this term of years, is the annular eclipse of Oct. 9th, 1847, which is also the only one of the magnitude of eleven digits. But in Boston, between 1791 and 1900, seven of this magnitude take place, three of which are annular, one total, and two annular within the distance of eighty English miles.

The following are the solar eclipses at Paris, according to M. Vaucel, in the remainder of the present century.

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II. METEOROLOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL

INFORMATION.

1. NATURAL HISTORY OF THE WEATHER.

[From the Companion to the British Almanac for 1830.]

ARE you weather-wise? is a question often anxiously asked, when all the appointments and arrangements for the out-door happiness of a large party have been made, and every desirable object anticipated or secured, except the certainty of fine weather, or even a continuation of it, if it already exist. The tone of the answers to this important query is in general expressive of hope of what it might, rather than of confidence as to what it will, be. The same desire of information and the same uncertainty prevail in the deliberations upon the more important and extensive operations of man, wherever the action of the atmospheric agents may assist or interfere; so that the cunning cheat, who could make a parade of abstruse learning sufficient to mystify the uninformed, has, for centuries, found the sale of predictions as to the state of the weather, an abundant source of profit. "Quackery," to use the recent language of M. Bory de St. Vincent, "has too long abused the public credulity upon this subject; for it must be acknowledged, that these phenomena are connected with a train of agencies, whose very existence we can never appreciate, and whose powers are beyond our means of calculation." Still, by the light which has been thrown upon the operations of this part of nature by the philosophers of our own times, we can safely take some steps towards an acquaintance with those atmospheric changes which directly or indirectly affect all vegetable and animal life, and more particularly with the order in which they succeed each other. Provided with this knowledge, we may often be able to anticipate them, and timely prepare either to avert or diminish their injurious influence, or take the greatest advantage of opportunities which may be propitious to the increase of the subsistence, wealth, and happiness of the community.

In the attempt to form a correct notion of the causes which produce those incessant variations in the atmosphere, which are popularly called

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