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Canon ELLACOMBE presided, and at the close of this by no 
means the least interesting of the many valuable papers contributed 
by Mr. Green, remarked upon the pleasure it would have given 
to their late Vice-President, whose decease they all so much 
regretted, to have listened to this addition to the Roman history- 
of Bath given, with so much modesty and yet so full of suggestive- 
conjectures as to the history of that period. Bath was more- 
barren of records of its Roman, British, Anglo-Saxon and medieval 
occupation than any town he knew. What a difference there was- 
between Bath and Bristol! Of the latter much had been written. 
“ Bristow fair,” though by no means boasting such antiquity as. 
Bath, was constantly referred to by old writers, whereas “ won- 
drous Bath” was singularly destitute of its chroniclers. Where 
are we to seek for the reason of this silence ? Did it arise from its. 
utter destruction in Romano-British and Saxon times? It was. 
the spade and the pick that had recently done so much to. 
elucidate the past. As to the marshy nature of the ground on. 
the South of the city, alluded to by Mr. Green, he asked for 
further evidence, and concluded with the expression of a wish that 
Mr. Green would continue his researches into the history of our 
ancient city up to medieval times and on to the 18th century, and 
hoped some of the members would puzzle Mr. Green with some 
questions. 
Mr. Bartrum having alluded to the finds of Roman pavement 
behind Daniel Street, and the stone coffins, &c., elsewhere, Mr. 
GREEN, in reply, spoke of the great labour and difficulty in 
hunting up the earlier history of the City, and referred them to. 
his first map published in the Proceedings (Vide vol. vi., p. 68) > 
and as to the Vice-President’s query about the marshy nature of 
the ground, mentioned the fact that the foundations of the walls 
appear to have been laid on marshy ground, and that the lie of 
the ground on the South was suitable for such a condition. 
A Special Meeting was summoned for Wednesday, January 
28th, to receive a paper from Mr. Mostyn Clarke on the Geology 
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