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has however none of the characteristics of a trackway. Sometimes 

 one might imagine it to have been made on the remains of a 

 rampart that once ran along the edge of the high ground con- 

 necting the hills. In other places it might be taken for a Roman 

 vicinal road, if there were any reason for expecting to find one in 

 this locality. I think these traces deserve further investigation. 



In conclusion I must acknowledge the great help I have 

 received in the preparation of this paper from the many sources 

 of information to which I have had access. I am especially 

 indebted to several papers in the Proceedings of the Somersetshire 

 Archaeological and Natural History Society, by the Rev. Preb. 

 Scarth, and to a MS,, containing the substance of a " Memoir on 

 Lansdown, read to the Literary and Philosophical Society in 

 1858," by the late Mr. Jeffery. 



Tht Old Walls of the City of Bath. By Harold Lewis, B.A. 

 (Read February Uth, 1879.; 

 Bath has not maintained her Borough Walls — like York — as a 

 well-prized historical monument; nor has she preserved their 

 memory — like some Continental cities — by levelling the site and 

 laying it out for public walks. Yet, though we have destroyed 

 them, we cannot forget them, and their history is of interest to us 

 on more than one ground. In the first place it is necessary to 

 explain several of our street names — and the prospect of 

 elucidating local names would be to me at all times a sufficient 

 reason for inquiry. But also as a link connecting together the suc- 

 cessive cities which have existed here, and giving continuity to the 

 story of human habitation on this spot, the walls are .-econd only 

 to the springs themselves. If it be true that the Roman walls were 

 b.uilt on the foundations of those of the British city, it is certain 

 that the medijEval walls followed on nearly the same lines and 

 gave the same limits to Bath as to Aquse Solis. Though the 



