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Sea fo near; from which the Work in time might receive 
damage; we muft allow the abovemention’d Additions 
to be the refult of a very judicious Forefighc. 
The Bach alfo was form’d and lecur’d by a very com- 
padi Wall, of the fame breadth and depth with that on 
which the Pavement reded: the Wall, which fudain’d 
the North Side of the Pavement, made the South Side 
of the Bath. On the South Side of the Bath, from 
the Ead end, to the ends of the Stairs, there was a fo- 
lid Seat ; twelve Foot nine Inches long, very near ten 
Inches broad, and fourteen Inches high. The Bottom 
or Floor of the Bath, was made after the lame manner 
as the Pavement was made, excepting the Tejfer^, and 
the thick Bed of Clay : for under all, there was Brick ; 
then a Bed of the Budus or coarfe Mortar fomewhac 
more than a Foot thick ; above that the J^ucUiu or Ter- 
race only, half a Foot chick. The Sides of the Bath, 
the Seat, and the Stairs, were plader’d over with this 
Terrace about half an Inch thick ; all which were 
throughout fo Hard, Compad:, and Smooth, that when 
fird open’d, the whole feem’d as if it had been hew’d 
out of one incite Rock, and polilh’d. At the middle 
of the Ead end, at the Bottom, there was a Sink-hole, a 
little more than three Inches long, and above two Inches 
deep : about four Inches above it, there was another 
padage through the Wall of the fame fize ; the fird we 
may fuppofe to let out the Water which had been us’d ; 
the ocher to let in frefh. The Stairs and Seat were 
chiefly made of Roman Brick, between fifteen and feven- 
reen Inches long, between eleven and twelve broad, and 
near one and a half thick. Ac the North Side of the 
Bath the Ground was not open’d ; but at the Ead end 
of the Bath and Pavement, at the South Side of the 
Pavement, and at the Wed end of both, there feem’d 
to have been feveral Vaults or Cellars; for there were 
R r r r very 
