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motto: “Rather than lose the day we'll fight.” Then came the 
militia with drums and colours and “acclamations of unforced 
joy,” exceeding anything ever seen. After marching round the 
city twice all entered the Guildhall, where a “ sumptuous banquet” 
was ready, not touched however until “by permission of the 
amazons.” Danciirg was then kept up all night, the songs being :— 
In praise of him who came, with Heaven’s high hand, 
To drive Rome’s priests (those vipers) from our land, 
Those locusts, that to Lucifer bespoke us, 
Whose mock-religion is a Hocus-Pocus. 
The expense of this rejoicing was afterwards found to have 
been heavy, but “though great,” it was “pleasant” on this 
“ desirable occasion.” 
On Ancient Methods of Measuring Time and the use of the Ting 
Dial prior to the invention of Watches. By Rev. PREB. 
ScartH, M.A. 
(Read 23rd January, 1884.) 
The measurement of time has always been a subject of 
importance in every country and among every race of people. 
Amongst the most civilised and enlightened races we may expect 
to find the earliest efforts and the greatest advance in the science. 
We learn from Herodotus, the Greek historian, that the Greeks 
derived this knowledge from the Babylonians,* but the honour of 
the invention of the dial is also assigned to the Ionian philosopher, 
Anaximander,+ while Pliny assigns it to his disciple Anaximines. 
* Herod. Book II., 109. 
+ See Diog. Laert. IT. 1-3 (B.c. 547.) See also Pliny Hist. Nat., 
B. IL, 76. 
