To dig the dust inclosed here;
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones"—
be not literally applicable in the present case, they breathe such a spirit as would almost make any one "nervous" in tampering with revered and time-honoured relics nearly become sacred.
Glasgow does not appear at all rich in dial erections; the only one I know of is in our old street the Gallowgate (or Gallow's Gate; as you would say, the road to Tyburn), on the south front of a tenement, with no motto, but date 1708. Our long fame for numerous public clocks and excellent bells, according to the ancient adage—
"Glasgow for bells,
Linlithgow for wells,
Falkirk for beans and pease,
Edinburgh for wh——s and thieves,"
together with our frequent wet murky atmosphere, may all have contributed to the unfavourableness of endeavouring to mark the flight of Time through the medium of the solar rays.