Excerpt from The Farmers' Almanac for 1877: Being the First After Bissextile or Leap Year, and Until the 20th June, the Fortieth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; Calculated for the Meridian of Montreal, in Latitude 45 30' 26" North, and Longitude 73 24' 22' West There will be five Eclipses, three of the Sun and mid of the Moon, only one of which requires special notice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.