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Pyrenees. Pretty little'" ring-dials" of brass, gold, 

 or silver, are constructed on the same principle. 

 The exquisitely wrought portable dial shown on 

 this page is a very fine piece of workmanship, and 

 must .have been costly. It is dated 1764, and is 

 eleven inches in diameter. It is a perfect example 



Portable Sun-dial. 



of the advanced type of dial made in Italy, which 

 had a simpler form as early certainly as A.D. 300. 

 The compass was added in the thirteenth century. 

 The compass-needle is missing on this dial, its only 

 blemish. The Italians excelled in dial-making; 

 among their interesting forms were the cross-shaped 

 dials evidently a reliquary. 



