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Excerpt from The British Palladium, or Annual Miscellany of Literature and Science for the Bissextile-Year 1772: The First Part Containing New and Select Subjects, of General Use; The Second Part Consisting of Answers to the Former Year's Enquiries, With New and Curious Enquiries for the Perfect Year
It had been another Advantage, if the original Ferns of the julian Year had been continued. The Year to begin with Mareb, wherein the vernal Equinox happens; where all afironomical Computations begin. The intercalary Day to come in properly at the End February, the End of the Year, without the D0? Nrr'nt'tal Letter's being interrupted, as in the prefent Account. One Dominical Letter, beginning at March and ending in Feéruary, would have ferved for every whole Year. In leap-year, Februar would have contained 30 infiead of 29 Days in the common Year; and the gueeg?t'on of 31 and 30 Days, alternately, in each Month, from Mareb, had been contpleted and ended in February, at the Year's End. And addin 1 Day for meg Month pat! Lldarcb to the Day of gale Moon's Change in Mare would have thewn the Change in the prtfenj cuth.
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