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Summer solstice ; and these two erections 

 might be constructed with very little 

 expense ; for two pieces of timber frame- 

 work, about ten or twelve feet high, and 

 four feet broad at the base, and close lined 

 with plank, would answer the purpose. 



The erection for the former should, if 

 possible, be placed within sight of some 

 window in the common sitting-parlour; 

 because, men at that dead season of the 

 year, are usually within doors at the close 

 of the day ; while that for the latter might 

 be fixed for any given spot in the garden or 

 outlet : whence the owner might contem- 

 plate, in a fine Summer's evening, the 

 utmost extent that the sun makes to the 

 northward ?ii the season of the longest days. 

 Now nothing would be necessary but to 

 place these two objects with so much exact- 

 ness, that the westerly limb of the sun, at 

 setting, might but just clear the Winter 

 heliotrope to the west of it on the shortest 

 day ; and that the whole disc of the sun, at 

 the longest day, might exactly at setting 



