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Excerpt from The Ladies and Gentlemens Diary, or Royal Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord, 1777, Being the First After Bissextile, or Leap-Year: Containing, Besides the Calendar, a Great Variety of AEnigmas, Rebusses, Mathematical Solutions, &C. &C This year' there will be Five Eclipfes, Three of the Sun, and twj of the Moon, which will happen in the following Order: The Firfi Belip fe of the Sun will happen on the 9th of jam/my, at forty-nine Minutes after Three 1n the Aftemoon, only Part vifible. -the Se cond will be an Eclipfe of the Moon, beginning j'amzmy 23d, at forty-seven Minutes after Two in the Afternoon, Middle Eleven Minutes after Four, ends thirty-six Minutes after Five, Digits eclipfed Moon rifes at_ twenty-five Minutes after Four, confequently only Part vifible. -the Thiid Eclipfe will be of the Sun, 39d): 4th, at twentyj-one Minutes paf't Midnight, i11vifible.-the Fourth will be an Eclipfe of the Moon, 7116: zoth, at forty-two Minutes pafl Noon. -the Fifth is an Eclipfe of the Sun, which happens on the 29th of December, at Ten at Night, inv1frble. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.