Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems (1902)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York; London : Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 59
its own latitude—hin- 24 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday dered their production. In England and on theContinent people lived in close-lying towns; in Eng-land the variation of latitude could not be vast; butin the new world all was different. Distances weregreat. And those distances were chiefly… … Ellicott Sun-dial. The steatite mould of George Ellicott, of BucksCounty, Pennsylvania, is in good condition. Hewas a well-known maker of sun-dials and highcase-clocks,—a son, I believe, of the engineer Ellicottwho did so much of the laying out of the Federalcity of Washington, and the District of…
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