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dered the district of Camalodunum, in the time of Cyno- 

 belin, a strong position ; but he made it still more secure by 

 connecting them together by military roads. Camalodunum 

 was destroyed by the Queen Boadicea füll fifty years before 

 Ptolemy, or the author of the Itinerary of Antonine, wrote, 

 and there is little doubt that the head quarters of the 

 legionary soldiers in these parts were transferred to Bath as 

 soon as the victory of Suetonius Paulinus, by the destruc- 

 tion of the Brigantes of Gloucestershire, added that terri- 

 tory to the Roman conquests. 



Very striking traces of the uses made by the legionaries 

 and other inhabitants of the city, of its healing waters, were 

 discovered in the year 1755, (in Clearing the foundation of 

 the Abbey-house,) at which time a buUding, conjectured 

 by some to be the ancient Baths, was laid opön. These 

 remains were found at the depth of tAventy feet below the 

 surface of the earth, four feet deeper than any other remains 

 discovered here, which leads to the supposition that they 

 were among-st the oldest and most striking works in the 

 place. Their position occupied nearly the centre of the Ro- 

 man city, which was in the form of an irregiüar pentagon, 

 having five waUs, and fom* gates, facing the cardinal points, 

 and connected by two streets, running in direct lines, and 

 intersecting each other in the centre of the city. Some 

 remains of these walls were discovered in 1795. From what 

 was then laid open, the masonry appeared to be of the best 

 style. They were about fifteen feet in thickuess, widening 

 gradually as they descended, of extreme hardness, and 

 most compact consistency. They were constnicted like 

 similar Roman walls, in the style which Vitruvius calls 

 Diamicton. Those, however, who are curious in Roman 

 masonry, are referred to Älr. Bruce's excellent account of 

 the " Barrier of the lower Isthmus," or the great wall running 



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