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fo be made in the Temple of Fortune ac Tr<.tnefte ; perhaps 
the fame which not long fince was taken notice of by 
the Honourable Mr. Addifon {b ). 
\ was rather inclin’d to fuppofe, it had been that A- 
partment belonging to the chief Officer where Jufticc 
was adminifter’d ; and the more, becaufe Pilats final 
Sentence on our Saviour was pronounced from a Throne 
on the Lithofiroton (e); which Appellation was given 
to thefe kinds of Pavements by Farro (d) not lefs 
than fixty Years before; and by Plin) {e) not lefs than 
forty Years after our Saviours Suffering. That the Ro- 
man Generals caus’d fucb Pavements to be made ac 
their Stations; we may have juft reafon to conclude, 
from that paflage {f) in Suetonius cited for this pur- 
pofe by Dr. ( f ) Plot, 
When the Ground about the Pavement was dug, all 
thefe Suppofitions were quafh’d ; for on the North Side 
of the Pavement, we difeover’d an entire Bath, fixteen 
Foot long, five Foot nine Inches broad, and two Foot 
nine Inches deep (which the Draught fent with this 
reprefents) : Fig- 1. It was fill’d with Rubbifh of Buildings, 
which feem’d to have been burnt ; fc. hard Mortar 
adhering to pieces of Roman Brick, fquar’d Stones, and 
headed Flint, mingled with Afhes and Coals of Wood. 
From the Northweft Corner of the Pavement, was the 
Paflage into the Bath, three Foot three Inches wide; 
ac which place, the Bricks that bounded the Pavement, 
were not turn’d up ac their, ends, but lay even with the 
Tejfera. At the diftance of fifteen Inches from the 
Tefferdt, there was a Fall of two Inches, to the Land.ing- 
( 6 ) Remarks on feveral places in ItalVy Fag. 377^ . ( c ) 
K. XIX. 19. ( dy Ter. Var. de Re LiB. 3.' ^ 
C «-> PUn. Hift. Nat. Lib. XXXVI. C.-XXV, (/) Jnl.C«f,Sca.4(J. 
i g y Oxferdjhire Plots.-Nat...Hiftoj:y, Chap. X.-, , . . . 
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