1. Table of Times of Elections, &c. 2. Governors of the several States, &c. 257 9. Baptist Denomination Congress, Sessions of Deaf and Dumb in Europe 134 Latitude and Longitude of Places . 235-242 24 259 256-258 307 148 275 83 Louisiana-Government; Judiciary; 297 Cuvier, Baron 300 272 Debt, United States' 142 Delaware Government; Judiciary; Outlines of the Constitution; Educa- ERRATA. Page 3, last line, for the descending node," read " 66 6, Oct. 13th, for "Feast" read "Fast" 66 66 U," &c. 9, near the bottom, for "Sun cent. eclipsed" read "Sun sets centrally eclipsed " 15, for "Norfolk, Pa." read "Norfolk, Va." 27,"Salem, in lat 42° 31' 30" not "52°," &c. 35, The setting of the Moon is, to a certain extent, erroneously "192, 2d line from the bottom, for "Robert C. Trier," read "Robert C. Grier." "276, for "*Essex," read "§ Essex." ** For Additions and Corrections, see pages 335 and 336. N. B. In the volumes of the Almanac for the years 1830, 1831, and 1832, the rising and setting of the sun were given according to appar ent time; but in the volumes for 1833 and 1834, they are given according to mean time. CAL DEPARTMENT. THE most remarkable of the phenomena that this year (1834) will happen, is the eclipse of the Sun, on Sunday the thirtieth of November. This is the third of the very uncommon series of five large eclipses, visible to us, in the short term of seven years; the fourth of this series will take place May 15th, 1836, and the last, September 18th, 1838. The eclipse of the present year will doubtless receive great attention throughout our country. In those places where its magnitude will not exceed eleven digits, much diminution of the light is not to be expected, even at the time of the greatest obscuration; perhaps, however, it may be sufficient to render visible the planet Venus, then about 30 degrees E. S. E. of the Sun, and much nearer the Earth, than usual: nor will the obscuration be very great where the eclipse is almost total; since it has been observed, on former occasions, that the uneclipsed part, even when reduced to a mere point, sheds sufficient light to render small objects distinctly visible, and invisible the brightest of the stars. Indeed, on account of the refraction of the Sun's rays by the atmosphere of the Earth, the darkness can hardly with strictness be considered total, even where the Sun is completely shut out from the sight. In the great and remarkable eclipse of June 16th, 1806, when the Sun was totally obscured. at Boston, for five minutes. as much light remained as is given by the Moon when full; and greater darkness will not probably be experienced, in any place, on the present occasion. Throughout the United States, however, a great depression of the thermometer, if placed in the sun, will probably be noticed; and, for some minutes before and after the moment of greatest obscuration, the power of a lens to produce combustion, by condensing the solar rays, will be quite, if not entirely, destroyed. At the time of the Annular eclipse of February 12th, 1831, it was observed by the Editor, that the thermometer in the sun, fell from 72 to 29, and that during the continuance of the ring, no sensible effect was produced by placing its blackened bulb in the focus of a powerful burning-glass. This Eclipse, it will be seen on tracing the path of the centre, will be total in a small part of the Territory of Arkansas, and of the States of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. The principal places, in which the obscurity will probably be complete, are Charleston, Beaufort, S. C., Savannah, Milledgeville, Tuscaloosa, and Little Rock. The greatest duration of total darkness in any place, will be about 1m. 56s.; at Tuscaloosa, it will be about Im. 53s. and at Beaufort, 1m. 46s.; these places lying very near the central path. At Charleston and Savannah, the duration will be considerably less, the former being situate about forty miles north of this path, the latter about thirty south. The width of the line of total darkness varies in its passage across the Earth, but in the United States will be about one hundred miles. Those of the inhabitants of the Atlantic States, who desire to behold this rare spectacle, the most magnificent and sublime of the phenomena of nature, compared with which even Niagara sinks into mediocrity, will find Beaufort the most eligible place in which to make their observations; and they will not neglect this opportunity when they reflect, that the Moon's shadow will not again, for the space of thirty-five years, pass over any part of the inhabited portion of the United States, or until August 7th, 1869. As, at the time of the Eclipse of Feb., 1831, much inconvenience |