Excerpt from The American Tract Society's Almanac for the Year of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1861: Being the First After Bissextile, and Until the Fourth of July, the Eighty-Fifth Year of the Independence of the United States; Calculated for Boston, New York, Washington, and Charleston, and Four Parallels of Latitude II. An annular eclipse of the Sun July 7, invisible in this country, but visible as a partial eclipse in the southern part of China and Hindostan and in the northern part of Australia. 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.