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LEWIS EVANS-ADDRESS : 
circle, was divided into hours with a projecting notch at 12 o’clock 
midnight; this notch had to be set to the day of the month. The 
observer then held the instrument towards the north, keeping the 
handle at the bottom and looking at the pole-star through the 
central hole of the rivet, and turned the last plate or index-arm 
until it touched the pointers of the Great Bear, when it recorded 
the hour of the night on the smaller disc. There are two eighteenth 
century nocturnals here, one English and one German, besides the 
nocturnals combined with various sun-dials. 
I will now conclude by mentioning a few only out of the 2,000 
dial mottoes that have been collected, and of which nearly three- 
fourths are printed in the last edition of Mrs. Gatty’s hook; these 
mottoes are taken almost at random, except that all those on the 
dials here to-night will he cited, and that I have omitted all the 
most common mottoes. 
1. “ Abuse me not, I do no ill; 
I stand to serve thee with good will: 
As careful, then, he sure thou be 
To serve thy God as I serve thee.” 
Eormerly at Oldham. 
2. “ Aspice quam celeri cursu levis effugit hora.” 
Mark with how swift a course the light hour flies. 
3. “ Avant de regarder si je suis juste, 
Begarde si tu Test toi-meme.” 
Before thou lookest if I am right, 
Look if thou art right thyself. 
At La on. 
4. “ By light from heaven I mark how days do die ; 
How rise again at morning-tide I mark. 
When clouds obscure that light, I patiently 
Stretch my dumb gnomon, hopeful in the dark, 
Waiting to catch once more some guiding heavenly spark. 
To die, to rise, to hope in time of trial, 
Take, master, thus thy lessons from the dial 1” 
By the Bev. J. T. Jeff cock, 1861. 
“ C’est l’heure de boire.” 
Now is the time for drinking. 
On an inn at Libourne, etc. 
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