Doggett, John, The great metropolis or guide to New-York for 1846

(New York :  Directory Establishment,  [1846?])

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ALMANAC,   ECLIPSES,   ETC.
 

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Sheriff and Deputies     .       . 128
 

Tiffany, Young & Ellis
 

118
 

Societies and Institutions "   .   84
 

Theatres       .       .        .       .
 

120
 

Stage Lines .       .       .       .115
 

Trinity Episcopal Church    .
 

80
 

StiUion Houses, Police          .   63
 

Trust & Life Ins. Companies
 

100
 

Steiimboat Lines  .       .       .  125
 

Union Place .        .       .       .
 

54
 

St. John's Park or Hudson Sq. 54
 

University of the Citv of N.Y
 

91
 

Storage         .       .       .       .110
 

Vebicles, number of
 

115
 

Street Directory    .        .       . 135
 

Ward Schools
 

92
 

Street Inspectors (Policemen)   72
 

Washington Square
 

54
 

Tares allowed       .       .       .127
 

Weighing      .       .       .       .
 

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Taverns and Hotels     .       . 102
 

Wharfage     .       .       .       .
 

JlO
 

Taxes, Collection of     .       .101
 

Williams & Stevens
 

119
 

,AI.]?IANAC FOK THE YEAR 1846.
Being the second after Bissextile, and until the Fourth of July,  the
70th year of the Independence of the United States.

CUSTOMARY NOTES, &c. FOR TllE YEAR 1846.

Venus (9) will be Evening Star until March 2d, then Morning
Star until December ]5lh, then Evening Star until October 3d, 1847.

Tlie Moon will run highest, this year, about the22d degree of (II)
Gemini, and lowest about the.22d desree of (t) Sagittarius.

Latitude of Herschel (1^1) about 41' south this year.

Longitude of the Moon's Ascending (SI) in the middle of this year,
7 signs, 4 degrees.

Mean obliquity of the Ecliptic in the middle of this year, 23° 27'
33.5".   True obliquity, same time, 23° 27' 25.3".

MOVEABLE   FEASTS.

Easter Sunday..........................................April 12

Rogation Sunday........................................May 17

Ascension Day...........................................May 21

Whit Sunday, (Pentecost).................................May 31

Trinity Sunday...........................................June 7

Advent Sunday..........................................Nov. 29

EQUINOXES   AND   SOLSTICES.

D.   H.   M.

Vernal Equinox, March..........................20   6 50 even.

Summer Solstice, June............................21    3 36 even.

Autumnal Equinox, SeptembiT...................23   5 34 morn

Winter Solstice, December........................21 11 15 even.

ECLIPSES IN THE YEAR 1846.

There will be two Eclipses only this year, and both of the Sun.

I.  On the 25th of April the Sun will be visibly Eclipsed on the
southern limb.

This Eclipse will be visible throughout the United States, !except-
ing the North-western corner of the Oregon Territory ; also through¬
out Mexico, Texas, West Indies, Great Britain,Jieland and Iceland :
together with the southern part of Greenland, the northern part of
South America, and the western parts of Europe and Africa.

II.  There will be an Eclipse of the Sun on the 20th of Octciber, at
the time of New Moon in the morning, invisible in America, but visi¬
ble Ihroiipli the greater pM't (if ,'\f:ipa and of Australia
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