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Family almanack, for the year of our Lord 1747 : being the third after bissextile, or leap-year : containing every thing that is necessary and useful in a common almanack : viz. an exact and compleat calendar, the true rising and setting of the sun, the nightly rising and setting of the moon, the increase, decrease, and length of days, the regulation of clocks and watches, times of high-water at London Bridge, and many other places, the moon's signs, the month days in new stile or foreign account of time, with the lunations, weather, eclipses, and many other particulars : of general use to all men : to which is added, a physical directory, or, short, plain, and curious instructions, for gathering and drying of herbs, so as to preserve their true astral and balsamick vertues, and their use in the cure of most distempers incident to human bodies.
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