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Engraved by Charles Heath from a drawing by W.H.Brooke.

Pub & NOV. 24 1823 by Sherwood & C: Faternoster Row.

FOR

1824;

OR,

A Complete Guide to the Almanack:

CONTAINING AN EXPLANATION

OF

Saints' Days and Holidays;

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES,
NOTICES OF OBSOLETE RITES AND CUSTOMS,

SKETCHES OF COMPARATIVE CHRONOLOGY,

AND

CONTEMPORARY BIOGRAPHY.

Astronomical Occurrences

IN EVERY MONTH;

COMPRISING REMARKS ON THE

PHENOMENA OF THE CELESTIAL BODIES,
with

REFLECTIONS ON THE STARRY HEAVENS:

AND

THE NATURALIST'S DIARY;

EXPLAINING THE VARIOUS

APPEARANCES IN THE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE KINGDOMS.

To which are prefixed

OUTLINES OF HISTORICAL AND PHYSICAL

Geography;

AND

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An Introductory Foem on Flowers!

BY BERNARD BARTON.

PUBLISHED ANNUALLY.

London:

PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, JONES, AND CO.,

Paternoster Row.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.

James Compton, Printer, Middle tree, Cloth Fair, London.

DESCRIPTION of the FRONTISPIECE.

The FRONTISPIECE to our present Volume is engraved by Mr. CHARLES HEATH, from a Drawing by Mr. W. H. BROOKE, the composition of which reflects great credit on this Gentleman. It presents to our view a Medallion Portrait of CAPTAIN PARRY (of whom a memoir is given in pp. xlii-xlvi), supported by four figures emblematic of the four quarters of the globe, who are supposed to be in the act of raising the veil of concealment which has so long hung over the fate of this intrepid navigator; and whose return, in good health, has dispelled all our anxious fears respecting him; while the rays of light, beaming from behind the portrait, are seen to disperse those clouds of ignorance with which the Polar Regions have been so long enveloped.—The Vignette represents His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper in Winter Harbour, ice-bound and snowsurrounded: in this melancholy situation, not an object was to be seen on which the eye could long rest with pleasure;-it was the death-like stilness of the most dreary desolation, and the almost total absence of animated existence-a scene which will convey to the Reader some idea of the noble endurance of British seamen, during their weary sojourn in this inhospitable, bleak, and barren clime.

A limited number of PROOF IMPRESSIONS of the FRONTISPIECE has been taken off on Quarto Paper, which will serve as a Frontispiece to Captain Purry's Voyage, or for Framing.

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December 1822.

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