┌───────────────────┬───────────────┬───────┬──────────┬───────┬───── │ │ Sunset. │ ’Eshë │Day-break.│ Noon. │ ’Asr. │ ├───────────────────┼───────┬───────┼───────┼───────┬──┴────┬──┴────┐ │ │ Mo.T.│ Eur.T.│ Mo.T.│ Mo.T.│ Mo.T.│ Mo.T.│ │ │ h. m.│ h. m.│ h. m.│ h. m.│ h. m.│ h. m.│ │ June 21 │ 12 0│ 7 4│ 1 34│ 8 6│ 4 56│ 8 31│ │ July 22│ May 21│ 12 0│ 6 53│ 1 30│ 8 30│ 5 7│ 8 43│ │ Aug. 23│ Apr. 20│ 12 0│ 6 31│ 1 22│ 9 24│ 5 29│ 9 4│ │ Sept. 23│ Mar. 20│ 12 0│ 6 4│ 1 18│ 10 24│ 5 56│ 9 24│ │ Oct. 23│ Feb. 18│ 12 0│ 5 37│ 1 18│ 11 18│ 6 23│ 9 35│ │ Nov. 22│ Jan. 20│ 12 0│ 5 15│ 1 22│ 11 59│ 6 45│ 9 41│ │ Dec. 21 │ 12 0│ 5 4│ 1 24│ 12 15│ 6 56│ 9 43│ └───────────────────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┘ A pocket almanack is annually printed at the government-press at Boolák.[343] It comprises the period of a solar year, commencing and terminating with the vernal equinox; and gives, for every day, the day of the week, and of the Mohammadan, Coptic, Syrian, and European months; together with the sun’s place in the zodiac, and the time of sunrise, noon, and the ’asr. It is prefaced with a summary of the principal eras and feast-days of the Muslims, Copts, and others; and remarks and notices relating to the seasons. Subjoined to it is a calendar containing physical, agricultural, and other notices for every day in the year; mentioning eclipses, etc.; and comprising much matter suited to the superstitions of the people. It is the work of Yahya Efendee, originally a Christian priest of Syria; but now a Muslim. Of Geography, the Egyptians in general, and, with very few exceptions, the best instructed among them, have scarcely any knowledge: having no good maps, they are almost wholly ignorant of the relative situations of the several great countries of Europe. Some few of the learned venture to assert that the earth is a globe; but they are opposed by a great majority of the ’Ulama. The common opinion of all classes of Muslims is, that our earth is an almost plane expanse, surrounded by the ocean,[344] which, they say, is encompassed by a chain of mountains called “Káf.” They believe it to be the uppermost of _seven_ earths; and in like manner they believe that there are seven heavens, one above another.