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II. accurate Account of a teflellated Pavement, 
Bath, and other Roman Antiquities^ lately dif~ 
coyer d near Eaft Bourne m Suffex. ^ein^ part 
of a Letter of J^Lnu^ry i6, xyxy. from the 
learned 2)r. John Tabor of Lewis, to 2)r. John 
Thorpe, R. S. S. and by him communicated to the 
Royal Society, 
A Defcriptipn of the tefTerated Pavement at Eafi 
Bourne, near Pevenfey, mufl: have been more im- 
perfed than what is now *^iven, had it come to youc 
hands much fooner. I thought an exadi Account could 
not be taken, unlefs the Ground about it was open’d.- 
and it being part in a Meadow, and part in 
plough’d Ground, and under a Fence which parts two 
Perfons Lands; by realbn alfo the one was fow’d; I 
could not procure the Digging in both Places at the 
fame time. 
It was in Marcli laft when the Meadow was dug; 
and the laft Weekfave one in November, befoae we had 
leave to open the Ground in the Corn Field. The Mea- 
dow in which the greateft part of the Pavement lyes, is 
near a Mile and half South Eaft of Bourne ; it contains 
about four Acres, and is of a triangular Form ; the 
Southern Side is againft the Sea 5 only a few Filhers Cot- 
tages, and a fmallpublick. Houle or two being between 
that and the Sea. On the Northern Side of the Meadow 
is a High-Way, which leads from Bourne to Pevenfey : the 
Weft Side is by a Fence of Polls and Rails leparated from 
a large Corn Field, in Common belonging to the Parilh. 
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