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which he could understand, and which appeared to him 

 aptly to descrlbe a place celebrated on account of tlie natural 

 heat of its waters J 



" I believe the authority of Richard has been sufficiently 

 established by Sir R. C. Hoare, and others. A specimen 

 of the original MS. was submitted to Mr. Casley of the 

 Cottonian Library, and that gentleman immediately pro- 

 nounced it to be 400 years old. Now, as Professor Bertram 

 published the Itinera in 1759, the MS. discovered by him 

 is likely to be Richard's autograph. If so, it would be 

 desirable to ascertain whether it has o, or m, in the debated 

 word. And, after all, the Suggestion of Mr. Himter, with 

 regard to Antoninus, or bis transcriber, might be extended 

 to Richard. 



" In the copy of Richard's Itinera, in the library of the 

 Institution, is the foUowing marginal note, in the hand- 

 writing of the late Rev. T. Leman : 



" ' The original name of Bath was Aquae Sulis (and not 

 Solls), the British Goddess whose influence extended over 

 the greater part of the S. W. of England, whose chief place 

 was Sulisbury hiU, near Bath, and from whom Salisbury 

 plains have probably derived their name. AU the altars 

 found at Bath are dedicated to the Goddess Sulis.' 



" Mr. Leman (with others) seems to regard the name of 

 the British Goddess, as Sulis Sulinis and not Sul Sulis ; but 

 as we find DEAE SVLI, it seems more likely that Sul 

 was the original appeUation, for I can hardly think SVLI, 

 a contraction for SVLINl." 



THE Goddess Sul, or Sul Minerva. 



The British characteristic of Minerva imports something 

 adapted to her attributes, says Whitaker. The British 

 characteristic of Minerva, in its transition from Sulis, 



