( 553 ) 
place out of the Bath ; the Landing place v^as allb three ' 
Foot three Inches long, and two FOot two Inches broad .* * 
Thence by two Stairs, was the Defcent into the Bath ; 
the length of the Stairs, the fame as of the Landing- 
place; the breadth of each Stair was eleven Inches; the 
height of each Step a little more than ten Inches; the 
lowed Stair was twenty Inches from the farther Side 
of the Bath. The whole Work was very cempadi, and 
exatdly well made; not in the lead injur’d by Time, 
nor the Violence it underwent when fill’d up ; truly an- 
fwering the Precepts of Viiruvim\ which (^) ad vile, 
that for all Buildings, refpedt Ihould be had to the 
Strength, Gonveniency, and Beauty of the Work de- 
fign’d ; and that in order thereto, a careful and judicious ' 
Frovifion fliouid be made of Materials, without Parfi- ■ 
mony. 
Although the Author and Time of thefe Works , can- 
not as yet be difeover’d ; yet ’tis evident the Artificer 
near enough follow’d the diredlions Vitruvius (F^gave- 
for framing iuch like Strudures. 
( ) yi. tollio Vitruv. de Architeftur. Lib. II. Cap. III. Hasc autem 
ita fieri debent, ut habeatur ratio firmitatis, iitilitatis, venuftatis. Fir- 
mitatis erit habita ratio, cum fuerit fundamentorum ad folidnm depref- 
fio, & ex quaque materia copiarum fine avaritia diligens. eleftio. 
( r ) M. Vitruv. Fol. Lib. VII. Cap, I. Primumque incipiam de Rude- 
ratione, quae principia tenet Expolitiomim, uti suriofius fummaque pro- 
videntia folidationis ratio habeatur. Et fi. piano pede erit ruderandum, 
quaeratur folum fi fit perpetuo folidum. — Si aut omnis aut ex parte con- - 
geftitius locus fuerit, fiftucationibus cum magna cura folidetur. — Tunc 
infuper ftatuminetur ne minore faxo quam quod poffit manum implere; 
ftatuminibus induftis ruderetur. Rudus fi novum erit, ad tres partes una 
cal cis milceatiTt, fi redivivum fuerit, quinque -ad duum mixtiones ha- 
beant refponfum, Deinde Rudus inducatur, & veftibus ligneis Decuriis 
indudis crebriter pinfatione folidetur ; & id non minus pojl pinfum abfolu- > 
turn cra>ffitvjdinc fit dndrantis. Infuper exTeftaNucleus inducatur, rerixtio- • 
ncm habens ad tres partes unam Calais ; uti ne minore fit craffitudine pa- 
vimentnm digitorum fenum. Supra Nucleum, ad Regulam 8c Libellam 
exa£ia Pavimenta fttuantur, five. Seftilibus, feu Tefleris.. Cura ca ex-* 
tnulat^ fuerint, & faftigia extru£Hones habuerint, ita fricentur, uti, fi 
ScSilu fiut, nulU gradus in feutulis, aut trigonis, aut quadratis, feu favis 
Fkftj . 
