Sun-dials 
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life. ’Tis not unusual to see a sun-dial over the 
gate to a burial ground, and a noble emblem it 
is in that place; one at Mount Auburn Cemetery, 
Sun-dial in Garden of Charles F. Jenkins, Esq., Germantown, 
Pennsylvania. 
near Boston, bears a pleasing motto written origi- 
nally by John G. Whittier for his friend, Dr. 
Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, and inscribed on a 
beautiful silver sun-dial now owned by Dr. Vin- 
