XXII. Observations on a Roman Horologium, found in Italy. By Richard Gough, Director

It cannot but be in the recollection of this learned Society, that an account of a Roman Horologium, the only one then supposed to be existing, was given in a Letter from the late Beaupré Bell, Esq. to the late Roger Gale, Esq. and published in the Archæologia, Vol. VI. p. 133. It appears to have been a solar dial fixed at some station near Taloire or Annecy, protected by a building, and that building guarded by a fence or palisade, and attended by an officer, or servant, to give notice of the hours. Mr. Gale has collected, and this inscription furnishes, many curious particulars respecting this instrument for measuring time; compared to which the simplest and rudest modern clock, or even the first contrived clock, would be a wonderful machine.