October, 1816

This is how you read this page of the almanac. Today is October 21. The far left column is for the day of the month. The next column is the day of the week. October 21 is the second day of the week, so it is Monday. The next column tells us that the sun rose at 6:42 and the next column tells us the sun set at 5:18. The next column says that there were 11 hours and 38 minutes of daylight. This is a mistake. On October 13th, it says that there was an even 11 hours of daylight. On October 14th, it says that daylight lasted 10 hours and 58 minutes. On the 17th, it goes back to 11 hours and 48 minutes. It is a mistake that is repeated for the rest of that column. On the next page, which I will probably print next month, it says that November 1 had 10 hours and 6 minutes of daylight. The last two columns relate to the sun's position in the sky.