. The universal assistant, and complete mechanic : containing over one million industrial facts, calculations, receipts, processes, trade secrets, rules, business forms, legal items, etc., in every occupation, from the household to the manufactory. in 750; in Spain, in 1340; and in Portu-gal, in 1410. It was first used in books iu 748. The birth of Christ, was,however, four years earlier, that is in 1878, really 1882 since his birth; thechronology wais not inquired into until the reign of Justinian. The 46vears of the Julian calendar wad the first of our era. The Hegira, orJli<^ht, took pla
. The universal assistant, and complete mechanic : containing over one million industrial facts, calculations, receipts, processes, trade secrets, rules, business forms, legal items, etc., in every occupation, from the household to the manufactory. in 750; in Spain, in 1340; and in Portu-gal, in 1410. It was first used in books iu 748. The birth of Christ, was,however, four years earlier, that is in 1878, really 1882 since his birth; thechronology wais not inquired into until the reign of Justinian. The 46vears of the Julian calendar wad the first of our era. The Hegira, orJli<^ht, took place July lti.(522, aud is the Mohammedan era. Their year is12 funar months, or o54 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes; and eleven days beinglost a year must be allowed! every , to reconcile their dates with Olympiads of 4 vears began 776 B. C, and were continued untilthe 5th century. The era of the Selucidse 311 B. C, of Alexander 323 B. C, of the siege of Trov 1200 B. C, of the founding of Rome 754 B. C,of the battle of Actium31 B. C , of the Ctesars 38 B. C. of Tyre 125 B. C, of Abraham 2016, of Moses 1582, of Antioch 49. were also used byvarious early writers. The early Christians dated from the accession ofDiocletian iii A, D. The Vulgate fixes the Epoch of Adam at 4004 B. C, which is adoptedby the Romish Church. The Samaritan Pentateuch makes it 4700; theTalmud, 5344: Hales, 5411; the Greek Church, 5503: tlie Septuagint,5872; Pezron, 5872: Alphonso. King of Castile, 6934; the earlv Fathers,6502 and 5592; 2S4 to o2(>S B. controversy is a hopeless one. owinir to the prevalent i j-aorance regard-ing the true meaning of the first 12 chanters of Genesis, which are grosslymisunderstood, owing to the prevalent opinion that they form a mereliteral historical narrative concerning natural events, when the truth isreally far otherwise. Rollin. the historian, traces up the history ofeeveral ancient peoples to within 100 years of the alleged time of thoflood, and is
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