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one health-resort iu Britain for the wealthy Roman 

 colonists who needed such a retreat, was to the 

 Roman officer of that era what Simla and the Hills 

 are to our own military men in India — a place for 

 rest and the restoration of 

 health after the rigours of 

 a hard campaign ; with 

 this difference, indeed, that 

 to the Hills they go for 

 coolness, while at Aquce 

 Soils the expatriated legion- 

 ary found botli healing- 

 springs and a genial warmth 

 after the bleak, inhospitable 

 hills of the Far West or the 

 Farther North. 



Discoveries at Bath and in its immediate neigli- 

 bourhood liave proved that there was a sanatorium 

 for invalided officers on Combe Down, and we can 

 well imagine such being conveyed hither, to recover 

 or to die, along the road. 



The Baths of the Romans were discovered in 1755, 

 fifteen feet below the surface of the o-round ; relics of 

 a past magnificence ; of a civilization that expired in 

 bloodshed and confiagration. It was in the year 410 

 that the military forces of Rome left Britain. The 



THE SUN GOD. 



— the "Waters of the Snn" — we learn from the ancient history of 

 liritain. A highly interesting light upon this is furnished by 

 the sculptured stone discovered some years since, and now in the 

 local museum, which shows a decorative representation of the 

 head of the San God, from whose face radiate sun-rays, alternately 

 with serpents. 



