It became no representative of its station, nor any representative of the truth.

For it still continues to signify the seventh month, whereas it is made to represent, or to stand in the place of, the ninth.

The Quakers therefore banished from their language the ancient names of the months, and as they thought they could not do better than they had done in the case of the days, they placed numerical in their stead.

They called January the first month, February the second, March the third, and so on to December, which they called the twelfth.

Thus the Quaker kalendar was made up by numerical distinctions, which have continued to the present day.
[Footnote 44: Septem ab imbribus.] [Footnote 45: This was in the year 1752, prior to this time the year began on the 25th of March: and therefore September stood in the English as in the Roman kalendar.