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It is plain however that the Lunar Year will have 
loft one Day more than ordinary, with refped to 
the Solar Year, whenever the New Moons fhall have 
anticipated a whole Day; as they will have done at 
thole times, when it is ncccfiary that the Golden 
Numbers fhould, by the Rule juft now given, be fet 
back one Day : and confequcntly the Epad, for that 
and the fucceeding Years, muft exceed by an Unit 
the feveral correfponding Epads of the preceding 19 
Years. 
For the Epad is the Difference, in whole Days, be- 
twixt the common Julian Solar and the Lunar Year ; 
the former being reckoned to conftft of 365, and the 
latter of only 3 54 Days. If therefore the Solar and the 
Lunar Year at any time fhould commence on the fame 
Day, the Solar would, at the End of the Year, have ex- 
ceeded the Lunar by 1 1 Days; which Number n would 
be the Epad of the next Year : 2 2 would be the Epad 
of the Year following, and 33 the Epad of the Year 
after that, the Epads increafing yearly by 1 1 . But as 
often as this yearly Addition makes the Epad exceed 
30, thofe 30 are rejeded as making an intercalarry 
Month, and only the Excefs of the Epad above 3 o is ac- 
counted the true Epad for that Year. Thus when the 
Epad would amount to 31, 32, 33, 3 4.,&c. the 30 
is rejeded, and the Epad becomes 1, 2, 3, 4, &c. 
Since therefore the Lunar Year will have loft a Day 
more than ordinary, in refped of the Solar Year, 
whenever it is necefiary to fet the Golden Numbers 
one Day back, as was before obferved ; it follows, 
that the Epad muft at the fame time be incrcafed 
by an Unit more than ufual; the Difference betwixt 
the Solar and the Lunar Year having been juft fo 
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