[1] The authority here is the remarkable and 

 often quoted passage in Solinus ; but I do not pretend, 

 in a paper such as this, to cite authorities for every 

 statement, though I believe they exist, and may 

 easily be found by those who wish for them. 



[2] The benefactors here spoken of are Mr. Wilt- 

 shire and Dr. Nott, of whom previously. Dr. Nott 

 was the editor of the works of Surrey and AVyat. He 

 spent some months at Bath and Clifton in the interval, 

 not a very long one, between his fall in the Cathedral 

 Church of Winchester and his death, the somewhat 

 remote consequence of that sad accident. 



[3] So it then appeared. Six-and-twenty years 

 have since passed, and there is the building, the 

 library, the museum, the pubUc lectures, and there 

 are friends and supporters also, some of the old stock, 

 now the Nestors of the Institution ; others who have 

 since taken up their abode in Bath, and who show 

 themselves not inferior to the founders in the interest 



