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CORRECTIONS.

Page 115. In the Table exhibiting the "Apportionment of Representatives," there is a transposition of figures in the column containing the number of Representatives in the 22d Congress. They should stand thus; Vt. 5; Mass. 13; Rhode Island 2; Con. 6.

Page 156. Number of members on the books in the University of Oxford, England, 5,274; not 2,741. See page 268.

Pages 158, 159, 160, and 161. The abstract of the Fifth Census of the United States which is given in these pages, is from the official document. According to the official statement, there are a few slaves in the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. This is, however, an error: slavery is not permitted by the constitution and laws of these several states.

Page 186. Salary of the governor of Pennsylvania $4,000; not $2,000.

Wm. A. Falmer is reelected Governor of Vermont for the year ending on the 2d Thursday in October, 1833.

THE

AMERICAN ALMANAC.

PART I.

AMERICAN ALMANAC

FOR THE YEAR

1833,

Being the latter part of the 57th, and the beginning of the 58th, year of the Independence of the United States of Amer

ica;

the 6546th year of the Julian Period;

the latter part of the 5593d, and the beginning of the 5594th, year of the Jews.

the 2586th year from the building of Rome, according to

Varro ;

the 2580th year of the era of Nabonassar, which has been
assigned to Wednesday, February 26; (3967 of the Julian
Period, or 747 years before Christ, according to the
chronologists, and 746 according to the astronomers ;)
the 2609th year of the Olympiads, or the first year of the
653d Olympiad will begin in July, 1833, by fixing the era
of the first Olympiad 775 years before Christ, or at about
the 1st of July, of the year 3938 of the Julian Period;
the latter part of the 1248th, and the beginning of the
1249th, year from the Hegira, or flight of Mahomet.

8 Opposition

Conjunction, or having the same Longitude or Right Ascension,
Quadrature, or differing 90° in

The ascending, U the descending node.

An asterisk (*) prefixed to the conjunction of the Moon with a star or planet, indicates that the star or planet may be eclipsed in some part of the inhabited portion of the United States.

The sign is prefixed to the latitude, or declination of the Sun or other heavenly body, when north, and the sign - when south; but the former prefixed to the hourly motion of the Moon in Latitude, indicates that she is approaching, and the latter, that she is receding from, the north pole of the ecliptic.

The letters M. A., m. a., denote Morning and Afternoon.