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fourth of the same day is the hour of Mars ; and the 

 first of the next day is that of the Sun, and so on. 

 This seems to account for the planets giving names 

 to the days of the week : and Gibelin, wlio denies 

 in his Monde primitif, that the days of the week do 

 so correspond witli the order of the planets, mistook 

 by transposing Mercury and Venus. Jndian astro- 

 logy uses the inverse order of the planets; and the 

 succession of them as regents of Ghat is will bring 

 the Moon to be the first of Monday, and the Sun to 

 be the sixtieth of the same day. Consequently the 

 first ghat'i of the next day is that of Mars, and so 

 on through the week. It may be remarked, that the 

 regents o^ Horcis daring the day are the same in the 

 astrology of the Hindus with the regents of hours 

 according to the old astrologers of Europe. I shall 

 here close this trivial subject, which has been intro- 

 duced by me, only because the coincidence here 

 noticed cannot v/eli have been accidental. 



