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Excerpt from The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, Scientific and Railway Gazette, 1846, Vol. 9Between clocks and watches, lighted roads, and public announcements, we are now so well provided with information, that an almanac is not a matter of the first necessity to most persons. It was otherwise in the fifteenth cen tury; and if we consider how much comfort must