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Speed shows the ferry outside the North gate complete, the uprights 

 being seen on either shore, with the ferry on the river. Johnson 

 shows only the uprights on the shore, without the ferry, and so 

 does Wood's Jones. Here again Johnson differs . slightly from 

 Speed, the difference exactly occurring in Wood's Jones. Another 

 peculiarity is that in the Timber green near Gascoigne's tower ; 

 the timber lying about as shown in Speed's, has not been moved in 

 Johnson, the seven logs shown in the one are stUl seven logs in 

 the other, lying too in exactly the same positions. As Johnson 

 is exactly like Speed, so again is Wood's Jones exactly like 

 Johnson. Speed, too, marks some trees such as by Monk's mill, 

 with two small houses ; Johnson marks the houses, but not the 

 trees. Here again, as Johnson differs from Speed, so does Wood's 

 Jones agree Avith Johnson. 



This so called Jones's map has been misnamed and misdated ; 

 it is simply Johnson's of 1634. There is not, and there never 

 was a Jones's map of Bath. 



Besides a personal knowledge of several copies of Jones's 

 book — a scarce work notwithstanding — the above argument is 

 founded on or taken from Wood's 2nd edition, this being 

 the one usually quoted or referred to, the complete edition 

 in four parts. The earlier edition or Part i., issued in 1742, 

 it not often seen, and as being only a part would not be 

 bought or sought by a general reader. For this reason it has 

 been overlooked that the 2nd edition is the first in which the 

 so called Jones's map appears, for, on referring to the 1st edition 

 of 1742, Part i., p. 83, the map there given, is given honestly as 

 Johnson's. The paragraph describing it actually begins: — "In 

 " the year 1634, Dr. Thos. Johnson wrote a description of Bath and 

 " therein inserted a draught of the same, a copy of which I have 

 *' caused to be engraven." The map is then given as in Johnson 

 without any heading or name. It is the same map as given in the 

 2nd edition, but there called Jones's. The small letters on it 

 mark the same spots, not only without any reference to Jones or 



