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historical inquiries, wrote much of her History, and 

 made herself the centre of a little circle of poHticians, 

 to whom she was accustomed to give lessons on gene- 

 ral politics and English constitutional history. 



Bath has itself sufficient to tempt the curiosity of 

 the historical inquirer. Long before Mr. Warner so 

 well collected together most of what could be learned 

 respecting its history, one of its citizens, named 

 Chapman, wrote a short treatise on its antiquities and 

 history. Several of the writers who have treated on 

 its springs as a subject for philosophical research 

 have also spoken of the civil history of Bath. Wood, 

 an architect, to whom we owe much of the beautiful 

 architecture in and around Bath, aspired to the cha- 

 racter of its historian. Few have touched upon any 

 point in the Roman antiquities of Britain without 

 adverting to some of the many remains of the Roman 

 era that have been discovered here. The Britannia 

 Belgica of Musgrave relates especially to the Bath 

 antiquities ; but they have been illustrated most fiilly 

 by a very eminent antiquary of the present age, 

 whom we may claim as belonging to Bath, as many 

 of his early years were spent here, and he was trained 

 to learning in the Grammar School. He has also 

 dehneated them with great fidelity, and on a scale 

 worthy their curiosity and importance. I mean the 

 late Mr. Samuel Lysons, who projected and in part 



