The book of sun-dials; originally compiled by the late Mrs. Alfred Gatty; now enl. and re-edited by H. K. F. Eden and Eleanor Lloyd (1900)
Gatty, Alfred, Mrs., 1809-1873, Eden, Horatia K. F. Gatty, Lloyd, Eleanor, Evans, Lewis · London, G. Bell · leaf 179
which was taken down some years ago. There is a dial with two faces in a peculiar position at Fountain-hall, Midlothian. It stands on the lower corbie step of a pigeon-house, with the strange accompaniment of a pair of jougs, an ironcollar for securing a prisoner. The house belonged, in the… … FOUNTAINHALL. SCOTTISH DIALS 147 and died at an advanced age in 1722. The road to the house led pastthe pigeon-house, so that the dial and jougs could be seen by all. Didany thought of Shakespeare suggest itself to some of the travellersalonor- that road ? Orl. Who doth Time gallop withal ? Ros.…
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