them, fo that they reckoned two months for one this 
yeare, (that is to fay the 2^ and moones after their 
nerpyears day) they called 2^^;72(?o«^/, for otherwayes this 
prelent moone which changed in ^^^Z? (the ^th) would have 
been the 7thy whereas now they count it but the 6th 
moone, and accordingly do the tides fall cut, but this leap 
yeare being now paft the firft moone m the yeare muft be 
reckoned to begin on the change next following the i yth 
o( January y and all the other changes counted fucceffi ve- 
ly as before faid until the intervention of another /eajp 
yeare* 
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