Edinburgh's true almanack, or, A new prognostication for the year of our Lord, 1698 : Being the second after bissextile or leap year; and from the creation of the world, 5647. Exactly calculated for the good of the whole kingdom of ancient Scotland, but more especially for the city of Edinburgh, the metropolitan of the Kingdom. Whose latitude is 55d. 54m.¹/₂ Longitude is 11d. 37m. from Pico Tenereff. / By John Man, Philomat.

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