Phillips.l '^ J4 [Feb. 18, 



firing weather ;" "Passion runs tbrougli all languages." "Proceed, but 

 do justice ;" " It is a bad Devil that does no good." 



Above the calculations for each month is a piece of six lined poetry of 

 moral and didactic nature. 



In January it runs thus : 



Old Janers still begins the rouling Year, 

 And all that's past no vows caa e'er restore" 



ail December : 



"Deatli is a kalendar composed by Fate, 

 Concerning all men, jiever out of Date." ***** 



It gives also a list of eclipses and the Date of holding "Supream Courts 

 in Pensilvania. 



At PMladelphia the tenth day of April and the 24 Day of September. 



Courts of Quarter Sessions in Pensilvania. At Philadelphia, the first 

 Monday in March, June, September, and December. * * * 



Courts of Common Pleas are held : At Philadelphia, the first Wednes- 

 day after the Court of Quarter Sessions * *. 



Then follow the terms of the Supream Courts and Courts of Common 

 Pleas'in New York, and the Supream Courts and Courts of Quarter Ses- 

 ■sions in New Jersey, and at the end is a calendar of Court Days for Mary- 

 land. 



Taylor's Almanac for 1719 was printed and sold by " Andrew Bradford 

 in the Second Street near the great meeting House, in Philadelphia, 1719." 



It is a small duodecimo of fifteen leaves, in signatures lettered respec- 

 tivelj'', A, B, C and D. 



The compiler is honest enough to state, in the beginning, that " the Sen- 

 tences on the Heads of the Monthly Pages are mostly borrowed." 



Among the most noteworthy are the following : 



"From the first Hour of the Day (or one in the morning inclusive) till 

 ■six B good predominates, whence morning sleep becomes so sweet and 

 pleasant, from thence to Noon, Choler, Afternoon, Phlegm, from the Be- 

 ginning of the Night till Midnight, Melancholy." 



" Near to St. Omer's in Flanders is a large Lake in which are divers float- 

 ing Islands, most of them Inhabited, in one of them is a Church with a 

 Monastery." 



" In the Year 1276 the Countess of Heneberg Daughter to Florent the 

 4th Earl of Holland, had at one Birth 365 Children, all baptized by Don 

 William suffragan Bishop of Treves, in two Brazen Dishes, in the Village 

 of Lofdeen." 



Who can refuse credence to a fact so circumstantially set forth ? 



Taylor's Almanac for 1720 was issued by the same " Andrew Bradford 

 at the sign of the Bible in Second Street," 



At the head each of the twelve pages of the almanac on which the calcu - 

 lations for the months are set forth is a piece of poetry, and toward the end 

 of the volume occurs a remarkable piece of rhyme, entitled A Cronology, 

 setting forth various odd occurrences. 



