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portion of the Frieze of the Temple, now placed in the Vestibule 

 of the Bath Literary and Scientific Institution, has been discovered. 



You will find with the sketches of the funereal interments the 

 drawing of a fragment of a memorial cross, found on the site of 

 the same building. Tliis, probably, had stood either in the old 

 Abbey Churchyard, or in that belonging to Stall's Church, which 

 once stood directly opposite the White Hart, but the only vestige 

 of it wliich now remains is a vault in the cellar below Mr. Arnold's 

 wine stores. 



I have written to the Society of Antiquaries an account of two 

 memorial slabs (incised) which were found in taking down the 

 White Hart. They had each been turned to the purpose of a 

 chimney piece, and commemorated two ecclesiastics. 

 I remain. 



Yours very truly, 



H. M. SCARTH. 



To Albert Way, Esq., F.S.A., Hon. Sec. Archseol. Institute. 



And now having occupied so much time in tracing this 

 road, and in endeavouring to settle the stations on it, the 

 question arises — Why take all this trouble and occupy time in 

 minutely describing what is now no longer of use ? If present 

 utility were the only object, an investigation would be useful, 

 if carried only to the point of confirming the authority of a 

 written document of ancient date, and setthng history upon a 

 solid and stable basis. But there are still further uses, and 

 there are deep reflections to be drawn from investigating any- 

 thing that has been achieved in ancient times. 



The Roman roads are, perhaps, the most wonderful and 

 most enduring record of the power of that great people. The 

 examination of them gives us probably a larger and clearer 

 conception of the range of their power and influence than any 

 other of their works which yet remain. We trace these lines 



