. Travel January 1915 . IN the new residence district of San Francisco is the largest sundial in the world, the dial and the dial park measuring 150 feetin diameter. The dial proper is thirty-four feet in diameter, thegnomon of white marble rising to a height of twenty-eight feet. Thechild standing at its base will give an idea of its size. The shadowcast is of such size that the time of day can be read a block awaywith the unaided eye. Formerly the largest sun dial was at Leip-zig. Germany, measuring ten feet less in diameter than this one atSan Francisco. L. G. \Y,

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