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 Additional Remarks on the The next paragraph, and the laft in the page, is, " Nota quod quelibet figura algorifmi in primo loco Sign 1 fe ipfam, et in fecundo loco decies fe. Tertio loco centies fe ipfam. Quarto loco mil- lefies fe. Quinto loco decies millefies fe. Sexto loco centies mil- lefies fc. Septimo loco mille millefies fe. Octavo loco decies mille millefies fe. Nono loco mille milte millefies fe. Et femp. incipiendum eft computare a parte fminra more judaico." The fucceeding page contains the Latin and Arabic numerals from i to 100, the vulgar figures of each number being placed dire&ly be- neath the Roman letters. And in the next, which is the laft page of the book, there are in the firft column many numbers from twenty to a million ; thus fpecifying each number by Latin words, Roman numerals, and Arabic figures Viginti XX 30, &c. Mille Milia M e M a i oooooo. The other column contains Arabic numerals only from i to 100 and from 10000 to 100000. A perfon more converfant than myfelf in ancient almanacks might precifely fix the year when this calendar was written, in which attempt I frankly own I have failed. But thinking it un- likely that the computift mould have calculated and difplayed eclipfes that had palled, and obferving that the eclipfes of both fun and moon in 1406 were the firft fpecified, my furmife is that the MS. is not of an earlier period than the fifth year of the fifteenth century. And it is proper to repeat that the year of each eclipfe is marked with Arabic numerals, though fuch coetaneous annual object to fave the expence of embalming, of all the days and nights in the year the mofl lucky for coming into the world would have been the ^ of the kalends of April, and the ides of Auguft, it being prognofticated in the calendar belonging to Mr. Gough, that the bodies of the perfons born on thofe days or nights would never be liable to pu- trefaction. "Julius et funt duo dies etno&es in anno, inquibusfiquisnatusfuerit,. nunquam putrifiet ufque in diem judicii." 7 dates