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were excavated, 'i'liey are to be seen even now, at 

 the Museum, together with relics which prove the 

 high deo;ree of civilization that had been attained. 



Among other marks of progress is an inscribed 

 tablet with an inscription which one authority 

 declares to be the record of a " cure from either 

 taking the waters or bathing, certified by three 

 great men ; " while another is equally positive that 



f^ ^x vH -{/V} A(X yo vAy/^ 



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MYSTEEIOUS LEADEN TABLET DISCOVERED AT BATH. 



it is an " imprecation upon nine men, supposed to 

 be guests, who had stolen a tablecloth at the con- 

 clusion of a dinner-party." The age of this tablet 

 is fixed " between the second and fifth centuries of 

 the Christian era," which in itself seems to be a wide 

 enough margin. As if, liowever, this were not already 

 sufficient, there are others, learned in these things, 



