[334] Perennial Calendar.


September 6.

Chronology.

On the 6th of September, 1734, died in France, the Sieur Michael Tourant, aged ninety-eight, of whom it is said he never eat salt, and had none of the infirmities of old age.[335]


A Total Eclipse in Caligraphy.

To the Editor of the Every-Day Book.

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