Poor Richard improved : being an almanack and ephemeris of the motions of the sun and moon, the true places and aspects of the planets, the rising and setting of the sun, and the rising, setting, and southing of the moon, for the year of our Lord 1753, being the first after leap-year : containing also the lunations, conjunctions, eclipses, judgment of the weather, rising and setting of the planets, length of days and nights, fairs, courts, roads, &c. : together with useful tables, chronological observations, and entertaining remarks : fitted to the latitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of near five hours west from London, but may, without sensible error, serve all the northern colonies / by Richard Saunders, philom.

An almanac for Philadelphia and the "northern colonies." Includes zodiac information, a hymn from Psalm 104, comprehensive weather forecasts for each month, notes on anticipated eclipses, supreme court schedules, tips to protect structures from lightning, a schedule of Quaker meetings, a schedule of...

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