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and that is not a large one. Several of our Histori- 
cal Societies own single sun-dials. In the Essex 
Institute is the sun-dial of Governor Endicott ; 
another, shown on page 344, was once the property 
of ray far-away grandfather, Jonathan Fairbanks; 
it is in the Dedham Historical Society. 
All forms of sun-dials are interesting. A simple 
but accurate one was set on Robins Island by the 
Sun-dial in Garden of Frederick J. Kingsbury, Esq. 
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late Samuel Bowne Duryea, Esq., of Brooklyn. 
Taking the flagpole of the club house as a stylus, 
he laid the lines and figures of the dial-face with 
small dark stones on a ground of light-hued stones, 
all set firmly in the earth at the base of the pole. 
Thus was formed, with the simplest materials, by 
one who ever strove to give pleasure and stimulate 
knowledge in all around him, an object which not 
