FOR 1814; OR, A Complete Guide to the Almanack: CONTAINING AN EXPLANATION ОР SAINTS' DAYS AND HOLIDAYS; WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES, AND NOTICES OF OBSOLETE RITES AND CUSTOMS. Astronomical Occurrences IN EVERY MONTH; COMPRISING REMARKS ON THE PHENOMENA OF THE CELESTIAL BODIES; AND A POPULAR VIEW OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. THE NATURALIST'S DIARY; EXPLAINING THE VARIOUS APPEARANCES IN THE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE KINGDOMS; AND METEOROLOGICAL REMARKS. Accompanied by Twelve descriptive Wood Cuts of the different Months, TIME, robbed of his destroying scythe, here assumes a new character; and, with his telescope fixed, invites the purchaser to commence his prospective observations. Our Title-page sufficiently explains the nature, uses, and powers of his instrument. The It is intended to continue this Work annually, and to vary its features with each returning year. Astronomical Occurrences will be always new; and much novelty of information, respecting the antiquities, manners, and customs of our ancestors, will be successively presented to our readers, under the head of Remarkable Days. To supply the Diary with fresh stores of instruction and amusement, we need only 'turn over a new leaf' in the exhaustless volume of NATURE. An Introduction is prefixed, in which will be found (besides other matter) an account of the different instruments employed for computing time,—the entire Calendar of Julius Cæsar-a description of the French or Republican Calendar-and an explanation of astronomical terms. It only remains to add, that the Astronomical Occurrences have been written expressly for the TELESCOPE' by a Gentleman eminently conversant with the subject ;-and that, among the many other subject;—and sources which have been referred to, in preparing this Work, the Author thinks it but justice to confess his obligations to the greatly enlarged and much improved edition of BRAND'S POPULAR ANTIQUITIES, by MR. ELLIS; and to MR. WHITE's excellent NATURAL HISTORY OF Selborne. LONDON, November 23, 1813. |