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The farmer's almanack, for the year of our Lord 1799. Being the third after bissexile, or leap year, and twenty-third of American independance. Calculated for the meridian of Norwich - but will serve for the States of Connecticut, Rhode Island, New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, New-York, and Vermont. Wherein are contained the lunations, eclipses, aspects, courts, sun & moon's rising & sitting, judgment of the weather, rising sitting & southing of the seven stars, table of interest, tide table; with a number of useful recipes entertaining stories, &c. Also, an accurate account of the various ravages that the plague and yellow fever, has made, from the earliest period to the present time / By J. Weatherwise, astronomer.
Date: [1799]- Books
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The American coast pilot; containing the courses and distances between the principal harbours, capes and headlands, from Passamaquoddy through the Gulph of Florida, with directions for sailing into the same, describing the soundings, bearings of the light-houses and beacons from the rocks, shoals, ledges, &c. Together with the courses and distances from Cape-Cod and Cape-Ann to Georges'-Bank, through the South and East Channels, and the setting of the currents, with the latitudes and longitudes of the principal harbours on the coast. Together with a tide table. By Capt. Lawrence Furlong. Corrected and improved by the most experienced pilots in the United States - Also, information to masters of vessels, wherein the manner of transacting business at the custom-houses is fully elucidated. Published according to act of Congress.
Furlong, Lawrence, 1734-1806.Date: - 1798