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Quid tantum Oceano properent se tingere soles
Hyberni; vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet.
Gentlemen who have outlets might contrive to make ornament
subservient to utility; a pleasing eye-trap might also contribute to
promote science: an obelisk in a garden or park might be both an
embellishment and an heliotrope.
Any person that is curious, and enjoys the advantage of a good
horizon, might, with little trouble, make two heliotropes; the one
for the winter, the other for the summer solstice: and these two
erections might be constructed with very little expense; for two
pieces of timber frame-work, about ten or twelve feet high, and
four feet broad at the base, and close lined with plank, would
answer the purpose.
The erection for the former should, if possible, be placed within
sight of some window in the common sitting parlour; because men,
at that dead season of the year, are usually within doors at the close
of the day; while that for the latter might be fixed for any given
spot in the garden or outlet: whence the owner might contemplate,
in a fine summer's evening, the utmost extent that the sun makes to
the northward at the season of the longest days.
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