Sun-dials 



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life. 'Tis not unusual to see a sun-dial over the 

 gate to a burial ground, and a noble emblem it 

 is in that place; one at Mount Auburn Cemetery, 



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Sun-dial in Garden of Charles F. Jenkins, Esq.. Germantown, 



Pennsylvania. 



near Boston, bears a pleasing motto written origi- 

 nally by John G. Whittier for his friend, Dr. 

 Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, and inscribed on a 

 beautiful silver sun-dial now owned by Dr. Vin- 



