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in conspicuous, frequented parts, as in the inter- 

 section of principal walks, where the *note 

 which they give of time ' may be readily recog- 

 nized by the passenger." This advice holds 

 good in present-day garden design, and re- 

 quires no qualification. The old-world charm 

 of the sundial is well expressed by Charles 

 Lamb in his meditation on the Temple dial: 

 *'What an antique air had the now almost 

 effaced sundials with their moral inscriptions, 

 seeming coevals with that time which they 



Fig. 91. — Stone sundials 



measured, and to take their revelation of its 

 flight immediately from heaven. How would 

 the dark line steal imperceptibly on, watched 

 by the eye of childhood, eager to detect its 



