Common Balsam. _Impatiens balsama._
Dedicated to _St. Lawrence_.
[240] Companion to the Almanac.
[241] Mr. D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature.
[242] [Royal Society.]
[243] [Newton’s Theory.]
[244] [Distances of the stars?]
[245] [Sir Isaac Newton.]
[246] [Halley]
[247] [Sir Isaac Newton]
[248] [J. Woolferman, _Aut._]
[249] [Dr. Edmund Halley.]
~August 11.~
_Sts. Tiburtius_ and _Chromatius_, A. D. 286. _St. Susanna_, 3rd
Cent. _St. Gery_, or _Gaugericus_, Bp. A. D. 619. _St. Equitius_, A.
D. 540.
The dog-days end on this day. This period in the year 1825, was
remarkable for longer absence of rain and greater heat than usual. It
was further remarkable for numerous conflagrations, especially in the
metropolis and its environs.