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By W. MILES BARNES. 



(.Read ^e6. 0S*A, 1901.) 



'HEN Major Coates read his paper on this subject 

 before the Society, the President expressed 

 the hope that the discussion upon it might be 

 resumed at some future time. I have prepared 

 these notes with the object of re-opening the 

 discussion. For myself, after examining the 

 watercourse and carefully weighing the argu- 

 ments Major Coates has advanced in support 

 of his theory, I accept it as one of the most 

 interesting and important discoveries that has 

 ever been made in connection with the ancient history of the 

 town, and I hope that the publication of his paper may move 

 archaeologists in other parts of the country to look for similar 

 traces of aqueducts in the neighbourhood of the sites of 

 Romano-British towns. 



The fact that four out of the fourteen aqueducts which in 

 ancient times supplied Rome with water are sufficient to supply 

 the needs of the large population of Rome to-day, shows how 



