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The following paper is intended to contain a brief account 

 of some of the Roman antiquities of Bath, which have been 

 dug up at various periods in and around the city, and which 

 have been described by various eminent writers, as Guidott, 

 Governor Pownall, Warner in his ülustrations and his 

 History of Bath, Mr. Whitaker in the Antijacobin Review, 

 and drawn and engraved by Lysons, with descriptions, and 

 which have also been treated of by Leland, in his Itinerary, 

 Camden, and Horsley. Some engravings of these antiqui- 

 ties have been given by Warner, in his History of Bath, 

 and a plan of the Roman Bath discovered some years since. 

 Engravings are also found in Horsley's Britannia Romana, 

 and in Guidott ; but owing to the great improvement in the 

 art of engraving, these ülustrations are very inferior to 

 what might be made at the present day ; and it is much 

 to be wished that an Ulustrated catalogue could be published 

 in the best style of the art of modern engraving. Mr. 

 Lysons' ülustrations are beautifuUy executed, and very 

 faithful, but the work is too large and expensive for general 

 use, and contains only a portion of the remains still existing. 

 Mr. Hunter has with infinite care and neatness arranged a 

 catalogue of the various Roman antiquities now in the 

 museum of the Institution. This catalogue is most valuable, 

 as containing not only a faithful list and correct account 

 of the Roman remains, but references to aU the notices which 

 have been made by Guidott, Warner, Lysons, Whitaker, 

 and others, and is the work of a very learned and accurate 

 Scholar. It is by this catalogue that I have chiefly been 

 guided, in endeavouring to draw up a succinct accoimt of 

 the Roman remains of Bath. 



The question of the first colonization of Bath by the 

 Romans is involved in much obscurity, and nothing cer- 

 tain is known respecting it. Warner, in his History, regarda 



