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'y ^ HIS, the fourth volume in a series of books 

 having for its object the preservation of so much 

 of the Story of the Roads as may be interesting to 

 the reading public, has been completed after con- 

 siderable delay. The Dover Eoad, wJiicli preceded 

 the present work, was published so long ago as the 

 close of 1895, and in that book the Bath Road 

 was {^prematurely, it should seem, indeed) described 

 as " In the Press." Attention is drawn to the fact, 

 partly in order to point out hoio quickly and how 

 surely the old-time aspects of the roads are disappear- 

 ing ; for, since the Bath Road has been in progress, 

 no fewer than four of the old inns pictured in these 

 pages have disappeared, ivhile great stretches of the 



