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than to use the stone quarried on the spot. So, 

 in the wilderness of new suburbs, the traveller who 

 is wliisked away by rail to Bristol may see, to 

 his astonishment, amid the stone houses, rows of 

 the most undeniable red-brick villas. And thus has 

 come the spirit of what the late Professor Freeman 

 was pleased to call " modernity " over Bath, once the 

 peculiar preserve of stone and Classicism. 



