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his pretended omissions, but actually with direct allusion to Dr. 

 Johnson. The letter " k " noticed for its absence from the letter- 

 press in the 2nd edition in the description of the so called Jones's, 

 duly and properly appears here in its place in the letterpress as 

 well as on the map^ and naarking Bellot's hospital ; fair evidence 

 that it was purposely omitted in the 2nd edition. 



That the two maps are the same may be seen from the fact that 

 both have two " w's "; one near the Guildhall having no reference, 

 the other marking the Cross bath. The difference in them is that 

 Wood has added small figures in the 2nd edition in extending his 

 references, and also the line on the margin naming it Jones's, for 

 "which, as can be seen by the pressure indent, the plate just 

 allowed sufficient space. 



Wood gives no reason for this alteration, attempts no explana- 

 tion whatever. Thus he leaves the conclusion open that he 

 was not misled, but that he supposed the change would not be 

 noticed. Further, it must be clear, that he either never saw 

 Jones's book, or that if he did so, he has wilfully practised a fraud. 



Smith's view now brought to notice, for it is rather a view, a 

 " portrature," than a map, is, clearly, independently made. The 

 walls are shown more bastioned than in the other maps, and the 

 timber green, although green, is without timber. AVhether it were 

 " measured and laid in platform " like Bristol and at the same 

 time as Bristol, viz., 1.568, cannot be stated. No exact date can be 

 given for it. If not done in 1568, it may be taken as not done after 

 1588. As it is the earliest known thing of the kind, there seems 

 no great reason why the Bristol date of 1568 should not be given 

 to it, as no change took place in the form of the city during the 

 twenty years named. If it cannot be accepted as quite exact, yet 

 better than any other map since, it conveys a very exact idea 

 hardly realized by us to-day, of what must have been the original 

 appearance of this very ancient and pretty, but yet very little, city 

 of The Bath. 



