Photograph from Francis P. Marchant 

 THE FAMOUS ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK OF THE OLD TOWN HALL OF PRAGUE, DATING 



FROM I49O A. D. 



In front of the town hall, during the fierce reprisals of Ferdinand II, after the heroic 

 efforts of the Bohemians had been foiled at the battle of White Mountain, forty-eight promi- 

 nent nobles and citizens of Prague met torture and the block with great fortitude. The 

 astronomical clock at the entrance, with figures of our Lord and the Apostles, is one of the 

 oldest in Europe. Inside the building are the dungeons where the patriots were confined 

 before execution. 



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