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criticise. John Wood in his description of Bath, on page 84, vol. i. 

 of 2ud edition, has given an engraving of what he calls : — " A 

 " copy of Doctor Jones's view of the city of Bath, as it was 

 " published in the year MDLXXII." He gives it boldly as being 

 a view taken in the reign of Queen Elizabeth to illustrate Jones's 

 book, "The Bathes of Bathes Ayde ;" and considering it suitable for 

 illustrating his own text, he adds — (p. 84) "I have therefore copied 

 it." First, here the title to this map is Wood's own ; witli attentive 

 reading that is clear, and so it must not be confounded or 

 taken as being the copy of an original, as a hasty general reader 

 may readily do. On pp. 85-86, Wood has described this map by 

 the usual method of using capital letters ; and then he has marked 

 by the use of other small letters or figures of his own, certain 

 localities which, as he says, are "neither named nor referred to by 

 Dr. Jones." Thus alluding to a certain house, he writes, "it stood 

 by the fig. 5 in Dr. Jones's view " — adding — " some of the parts of 

 which view he (Jones) thus described." Then he refers to the 

 capital letters as being Jones's. 



Now all this is false. Dr. Jones's book does not name or refer 

 to the city, nor does he by means of letters or figures refer to any 

 spot or locality in it. There are no such letters in the book, nor 

 is there any description of or allusion to any such subject as a map. 

 The treatise is entirely on the baths, as the heading of the four 

 chapters or books given in the dedication clearly show. The first 

 book treats of the descent of Bladud, and of the sicknesses the 

 baths help ; the second book shows the divers opinions concerning 

 the cause of the waters ; the third expresses things natural and 

 non-natural, and the signs of the sick for the better consultation 

 whether the baths will help them or not ; and the fourth book 

 declareth aphorisms and rules how the baths shall be used. Again 

 in vol. ii., p. 305, Wood says when speaking of Bellot's hospital, 

 " it was built on the ground marked " k " in Jones's view," thus 

 conveying two entirely erroneous impressions ; first, that the " k " 

 on the map is Dr. Jones's own letter, and also that Bellot's hospital 



