...described. For the year, instead of being three hundred and sixty-five clays six hours long, is only three hundred and sixty-five days five hours forty-eight minutes and forty-eight seconds long: and the time between conjunction and conjunction i.-i twenty-nine days twelve hours forty-four...

...of miles ; and that the exact time which it was understood was fixed for the performance of it, was three hundred and sixty-five days, five hours, forty-eight minutes, and forty-eight seconds. We are now arrived at the last night ; and from certain observations made every day to mark our progress,...

...called ? Ethnology. CHAPTER XXXV. TIME, SEASONS, DAYS, ETC. WHAT is the length of the solar year ? Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, Five Hours, Forty-eight Minutes and Forty-eight Seconds. How many months are there in a solar year? Twelve. What are their names ? January, February, March,...

...the civil year, aiul the bissextile year. Q. What is the length of the solar or tropical year?— A Three hundred and sixty-five days, five hours, fortyeight minutes, and forty-eight seconds. Q. Of the sidereal year?—A. Three hundred and sixtyfive days, six hours, nine minutes, and fourteen...

...sun, producing the seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Q. How long a period is this ? A. Three hundred and sixty-five days, five hours, forty-eight minutes, and fortyeight seconds. Q. When does our year commence ? A. On the first of January, which is called New-year's day. Q. How...

...sun, producing the seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Q. How long a period is this ? A. Three hundred and sixty-five days, five hours, forty-eight minutes, and forty-eight seconds. Q. When does our year commence ? A. On the 1st of January, which is called New-year's day. Q. How is...

...which we all have a vital interest, is next to Venus. The earth makes the journey around the sun in three hundred and sixty-five days, five hours, forty-eight minutes and forty-eight seconds, or one revolution in one year. Mars lies outside of the earth's circle, and completes its circuit around...

...disappointed in Mr. Peary. I know, quite as well as I know my own name, that the length of the year is three hundred and sixty-five days, five hours, forty-eight minutes, and forty-eight seconds, and if I find any one trying to lop off even one second of my hard-learned year, I shall look upon...

...people who speak the speech of Shakespeare. The exact length of a year, astronomically determined, is three hundred and sixty-five days, five hours, forty-eight minutes and forty-eight seconds. Behold the thrilling spectacle of thirty-one million, five hundred and fifty-six thousand, nine hundred...