NOTE. By a law of Massachusetts, the Barrel for Cider and Beer shall contain 32 Gallons. The Ale Gallon contains 282 cubic or solid inches.

NOTE. The Wine Gallon contains 231 cubic inches.

NOTE.

The true solar year is the time measured from the sun's leaving either equinox or solstice, to its return to the same again. A periodical year

is the time the earth revolves round the sun, and is 365 d. 6 h. 9 m. 14 sec. and is often called the Siderial year. The civil year is that which is in common use among the different nations of the world, and contains 365 days for three years in succession, but every fourth year contains 366 days. When any year can be divided by four, without any remainder, it is leap year, and has 366 days. The days in each month are stated in the following distich:

1 Sign,

S.

12 Signs, or 360 Degrees, the whole great circle of the zodiac.

COMPOUND ADDITION.

COMPOUND ADDITION is the adding together of two or more numbers of different denominations.

RULE.

Write all the given numbers of the same denomination under each other; then add the numbers of the first denomination together, and divide the sum by so many as make one of the next denomination; set the remainder under its column, and add the quotient to the next column; which add together and divide as before; thus proceed to the last denomination, under which, place its whole sum.