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THE

AMERICAN ALMANAC,

FOR THE YEAR

1854,

Being the latter part of the 78th, and the beginning of the 79th year of the Independence of the United States of America;

66 the 6567th year of the Julian Period;

the latter part of the 5614th, and the beginning of the 5615th
year since the creation of the world, according to the Jews;
the 2607th year (according to Varro) since the foundation of
Rome;

the 2601st year since the era of Nabonassar, which has been as-
signed to Wednesday, the 26th of February, of the 3967th
year of the Julian Period, which corresponds, according to
the chronologists, to the 747th, and, according to the astron-
omers, to the 746th year before the birth of Christ;
the 2630th year of the Olympiads, or the second year of the 658th
Olympiad, beginning in July, 1853, if we fix the era of the
Olympiads at 775 years before Christ, or at or about the
beginning of July of the year 3938 of the Julian Period;
the latter part of the 1270th, and the beginning of the 1271st
year (of twelve lunations) since the Hegira, or flight of Ma-
homet, which, as is generally supposed, took place on the
16th of July, in the year 622 of the Christian era.

☀ Mercury.

Pallas.

Venus.

Ceres.

2 Jupiter.
Saturn.

Herschel or Uranus.

I Neptune.

* A fixed star.

6 Conjunction, or having the same Longitude or Right Ascension. Quadrature, or differing 90° in

8 Opposition, or differing 180° in

The ascending, U the descending node.

The sign is prefixed to the latitude, or declination, of the Sun, or other heavenly body, when north, and the sign when south; but the former prefixed to the hourly motion of the Moon in latitude indicates that she is approaching, and the latter that she is receding from, the north pole of the ecliptic.

The letters M. A., m. a., denote Morning and Afternoon.

Dominical Letter,

Epact,

CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES.

A Solar Cycle,
Roman Indiction,.

Lunar Cycle, or Golden Number, 12 | Julian Period,