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THE

AMERICAN ALMANAC,

FOR THE

YEAR

1855,

Being the latter part of the 79th, and the beginning of the 80th year of the Independence of the United States of America;

the 6568th year of the Julian Period;

the latter part of the 5615th, and the beginning of the 5616th year since the creation of the world, according to the Jews; the 2608th year (according to Varro) since the foundation of Rome;

the 2602d 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 astronomers, to the 746th year before the birth of Christ; the 2631st year of the Olympiads, or the third 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 1271st and the beginning of the 1272d year (of twelve lunations) since the Hegira, or flight of Mahomet, which, as is generally supposed, took place on the 16th of July, in the year 622 of the Christian era.

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

8 Opposition, or differing 180° in

The ascending, & 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.

CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES.

Dominical Letter,

Epact,

G | Solar Cycle,
12 Roman Indiction, .

Lunar Cycle, or Golden Number, 13 | Julian Period,

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