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ftierly erected in the middlfc of it, is of a moderate warmth, and a 

 person may stay much longer in it than in any of the other baths. 

 It is enclosed with a wall, on the sides of which are seats, and at 

 the euds galleries for the music and spectators ; under it are ranges 

 of small dressing-rooms, one for the gentlemen, and the other for 

 the ladies, who being dressed in linen habits, go together into the 

 water, the men keeping on one side, and the women on the other. 



The Hot-Bath, so called from its being much hotter than the 

 Cross-Bath, is fifty-eight feet and a half distant from it. This bath 

 has a well, whose water not only supplies its own pump, but is 

 conveyed by pipes to the pump in the Cross-Bath. 



The King's-Bath has a spring so hot that it is necessary to temper 

 it by admitting cold water ; but the heat of the hottest spring is 

 not sufficient to harden an egg. 



The Queen's-Bath has no spring of its own, but is supplied by 

 water conveyed from the King's. 



There is likewise a bath for lepers, into which none go but such 

 as the physicians suppose to have this disease, or some other of a 

 similar kind : this is made by the overflowing of the Cross-Bath. 

 The poor who bathe in it have an allowance for their support from 

 the town ; but are chiefly relieved by the contributions of the 

 gentlemen and ladies who come to enjoy the benefit of the other 

 baths. 



The following is a correct table of the temperature of the different 

 baths, as given by Mr. John Howard, Phil. Transactions, Vol. VII. 

 p. 201 : 



Ki ng's bath pump 113 



Hot bath pump 114 



Cross bath pump 108 



Hot bath, coolest part 96 



Ditto, warmest part..... 97 



Pump in the hot bath 113 



King's bath, coolest part 99 



Ditto, hottest part 101 



Queen's bath, coolest part 97 



Ditto, warmest 98 



Pump in the bath 



Cross bath, coolest part 89 



Ditto, warmest part 9Q> 



Cross bath pump 1QT 



Pump in the Market-place, Bath 54 



Springs on ClaTerton 47 



St. James's spring water 43 



Springs on Lansdown 45 



Old Well-house, Bristol 6T 



New Well, ditto 76 



These temperatures were taken in the months of November and, 

 December, IJ65. The scale was Fahrenheit's, and the thermo- 

 meter constructed by Bird. 



In this city there are spacious ajid lofty rooms for balls and 



