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This Table is alaptai ta L?ap Year, particularly the year 1328, and 13 

 only intended to answer the purposes of information when no great de- 

 gree of accuracy is required, and the Nautical Almanack not at hand. 



la order to ad-ipt it to common years, one-fourth of the difference be- 

 tween the given and preceding days is to be subtracted from the right 

 ascension in the table for the first after Leap Year, one-half for the se- 

 cond after Leap Year, and three-fourths for the third ; and in the months 

 of January and February, the right ascension is to be taken for the day 

 following that given. 



This Table may be employed in finding the apparent time by the altl. 

 tads of a star, for finding tho tims of a star's transit when that is requir- 

 ed, for obtaining the latitude by a meridian altitude, c. 



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