[Footnote 2: Their shortest ordinary year consisted of 353, and its half of
176½ days. The Mahometan ordinary half-year consists of 177 days. The
calendar months of both Jews and Mahometans consist of 29 and 30 days.]
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Minor Notes.
_Inscription on a Grave-stone in Whittlebury Churchyard,
Northamptonshire._--
"In Memory of John Heath, he dy'd Dec^{br} y^e 17^{th},
1767. Aged 27 years.
While Time doth run from Sin depart;
Let none e'er shun Death's piercing dart;
For read and look, and you will see
A wondrous change was wrought on me.
For while I lived in joy and mirth
Grim Death came in and stop't my breath:
For I was single in the morning light,
By noon was marri'd, and was dead at night."