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the mother of George Washington, still stands in 

 Fredericksburg, in the grounds of Mr. Doswell. A 

 photograph of it is reproduced on page 369. The 

 fourth historic dial is on page 371. It is the one 

 at Kenmore, the home built by Fielding Lewis for 

 his bride, Betty Washington, the sister of George 

 Washington, on ground adjoining her mother's 

 home. A part of the garden which connected these 

 two Washington homes is shown on page 228. 

 These three American sun-dials afford an interest- 

 ing proof of the universal presence of sun-dials in 

 Virginian homes of wealth, and they also show the 

 kind of dial-face which was generally used. Another 

 ancient dial (page 350) at Travellers' Rest, a near-by 

 Virginian country seat, is similar in shape to these 

 three, and differs but little in mounting. 



In Pennsylvania and Virginia sun-dials have lin- 

 gered in use in front of court-houses, on churches, 

 and in a few old garden dials. In New England 

 I scarcely know an old garden dial still standing 

 in its original place on its original pedestal. Four 

 old ones of brass or pewter are shown in the 

 illustration on page 379. These once stood in 

 New England gardens or on the window sills of old 

 houses ; one was taken from a sunny window ledge 

 to give to me. 



Perhaps the attention paid the doings of the 

 American Philosophical Society, and the number of 

 scientists living near Philadelphia, may account for 

 the many sun-dials set up in the vicinity of the 

 town. Godfrey, the maker of Godfrey's Quadrant, 

 was one of those scientific investigators, and must 

 have been a famous " dialler." 



