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between Carllsle and Newcastle, — a work of the greatest 

 interest, and füll of carefully arranged antiquarian matter. 



The walls of the city are said to have had five angular 

 towers, one at each corner of the wall. The Building 

 supposed by some to be the Bath, occupied nearly the 

 centre of the space, on which the city stood. The length 

 of the foundation discovered, was about two hundi-ed and 

 forty five feet from E. to W., and the breadth one hundred 

 and twenty feet at the broadest part from N. to S. Warner 

 has given a description of what he calls the Bath, taken from 

 the History of Somersetshire. The remains did not long 

 continue open to the public, as modern buildings were soon 

 erected over thcm. A plan of these Baths Avas made by Dr. 

 Lucas, whopublished a goodaccount of what he saw, which 

 was afterwards improved and enlarged by Dr. Sutherland, 

 for his work published in 1763, entitled, " Attempts to 

 revive ancient medical doctrines," 2 vols. In this work 

 are many curious particulars respecting Bath, and in it first 

 appeared that eugraving of the remains which is copied 

 into Gough's Camden ; many of the tiles of which the 

 pillars were formed, that supported the floor of the Suda- 

 tory, and the hollow tiles for flues around the walls of the 

 same apartment, are preserved in the crypt of the Institution. 

 Whitaker is of opinion that the remains of the building 

 usually considered to be the ancient Roman Baths, was the 

 Pretorium. He says, (p. 125) " the whole appears to have 

 been a large building, erected by the Romans, on the site of 

 the Abbey-house, and containing a centre with two wings." 

 The eastern wing was discovered first ; and Dr. Lucas 

 examined it, with the assistance of Mr. Wood, the architect. 

 "Under the foundation of the Abbey-house," he teils us, "fuU 

 ten feet deep, appear traces of a Bath, whose dimensions 

 are forty-three feet, by thirty-four feet. Within, and adjoin- 



