The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-04-14
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The EXTRA LARGE FULL Moon IN
APRIL. The lunar pecularitiesgsay an
exchange. that mark be Nv months
oser which we are Passing maay & not fprove
Unworthy of snotR III Januarys and
also in March, !, there wafa t,aa ne,nk moons,
while in the intervening February there
1oas no moon; which is combination of
very rare occurrence, not having taken
place for at least forty years past, back
to A. d. 1880, further than which this
deponent has not Calculated This pecu-
liarity arises simply 'front.' the2 form of
our arbitrary calendar. But still moro
worthy OF note is the natural fact that
we have an erdct concurrence Of full moor
'oiM the perigee of the moons orbit; at
which time the moons apparent size is
the largest it ever is. Such an occur
renee cannot come oftener than once in
twenty years land LOT days) and one so
exact as this is not likely to occur for
several centuries. Let everybody look
out for the extra large full moon of
April Is, 1870.
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