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THE CONNECTICUT ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1781....THE ASTRONOMICAL PARTS PERFORMED BY THE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, IN YALE COLLEGE. Aside from the usual calendars and notices accompanied by brief snippets of verse, this almanac contains a several-page "Dialogue between Rusticus and Academicus" and a brief moral story titled "The Striking Fate of Guilt." The present copy also contains contemporary manuscript notes in ink calculating the total distance of a trip from Hartford to Charleston by way of Philadelphia and Williamsburg. ESTC notes two states of this revolutionary-era almanac; this is the state with "Hartford" set in italic type on the titlepage and which begins the verso with "Eclipses." "Except for the imprint and the second line of the title, the state of the present almanac with 'Eclipses' at the head of p. [2] is identical in content and typography with THE NEW-ENGLAND ALMANACK for the year of our Lord 1781...by the professor of mathematicks in Yale-College (Worcester : Anthony Haswell)" - ESTC.

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