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From the mean synodic month, 29.530588 days, reckoned from the new moon of 6 January 1900 — as every almanack must reckon from something.
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There being no sea at five thousand four hundred and thirty feet, the table is that of Station 8518750, The Battery, New York, and is printed here without alteration or apology.
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