NOTES 



ON THE 



ROMA!f SCULPTTJUE of the SUIT, in the Yestibule 

 of the Institution, 



BY THE 



REV. J. EARLE, M.A. 



The remarks which I have to lay before you this evening, 

 upon the subject of the Sculpture in the Vestibule, will 

 occupy such a very short time that I shall ask permission to 

 touch upon another subject, one also connected with the 

 antiquities of Bath. In the course of the last summer, 

 excavations were made in this city imder the direction of 

 Mr. Irvine, which were seen by many, your Vice-President 

 (Mr. Scarth) as well as myself being among the number, and 

 these have opened up the old baths of the Komans. The 

 rounded heads of the baths in which the Romans luxuriated, 

 with their porcelain or enamelled surfaces, are actually visible ; 

 and I was so struck with what was then brought to hght, 

 some 14 or 15 feet below the present level of the city, that I 

 now wish to bring before you a little passage which I met 

 with a few days ago. Happening to have a friend staying at 

 my house, who asked me to make a few inquiries among 

 some historians, with whom I have but a shallow acquaint- 

 ance, I took from my shelf some books which I had not 

 looked into for a long time, and there I found what struck 



