The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . st May 1750, SUNDIALS 495 - SUNDIALS that he was a bailie of Leith, and alocality till his death in 1771. Itthus appears that if the stoneworkof the dial was made by Strachanafter he purchased Whitehouse, hemust have brought the plate withhim from some other place. Thehorizontal dial measures 9| incheshigh by 9| inches in breadth, andthe table is 20^ inches square, andis 4 feet from the ground. Lethington Castle, Haddington-shire (see Vol. III. p. 256).—Around horizontal dial with a balus-ter sh
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . st May 1750, SUNDIALS 495 - SUNDIALS that he was a bailie of Leith, and alocality till his death in 1771. Itthus appears that if the stoneworkof the dial was made by Strachanafter he purchased Whitehouse, hemust have brought the plate withhim from some other place. Thehorizontal dial measures 9| incheshigh by 9| inches in breadth, andthe table is 20^ inches square, andis 4 feet from the ground. Lethington Castle, Haddington-shire (see Vol. III. p. 256).—Around horizontal dial with a balus-ter shaft stands in front of thisancient castle; it is undated, buton its metal face is engraved DAVID LYON SCULPSIT. Niddrie Marischal, Midlothian(see Yoh ii. p. 62).—This is afine example of the second classof horizontal dials (Figs. 1682 and1683); it stands in front of themansion-house, on the edge of aswift-flowing burn. The arms ofthe Wauchopes of Niddrie, withall the accessories, are very skil-fully wrought on the pedestal, and JACOBUS CLARK DUNDEE FECIT. prominent man in the affairs of the. Fig. 1082.—Niddrie Mai-ischaL on the metal face is the inscription hi /® WmoW I ^a^;;BH5?^ x^^»* Kli^/r ^ilwi-^ Fig. 1083.—Niddrie Marischal. SUNDIALS 496 — SUNDIALS hich House, Midlothian (see Vol. in. p. 528).—This dial (Fig. 1684),from the garden of the old mansion-house of Inch, is a simple and
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