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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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. Moores able and suggestive paper entitled Organisms from the recently discovered Roman Baths in Bath, read tothe members of the Bath Microscopical Society, in May, 1883. Once moreI insist that we must clearly separate what Sutherland knew from whathe conjectured. Indeed, Sutherland himself fairly draws the distinctions.On page 21 he says, This ground plot is exhibited in the plate annexed,as far as the earth is cleared away. The remainder is supposed, and drawenout in dotted lines. These dotted lines represent a vast terra Incognitacovering, practically, the whole of the ground recently opened up. That theexistence of the great Roman Bath has been transferred from the region ofconjecture to the region of fact we owe entirely to the enthusiasm andand unwearied zeal of Major Davis, and no fair mind can deny him thecredit of being the practical discoverer of the great Roman liath. More creditthan this he has never claimed ; less than tl^s only the churlish and enviouswill grudge him. i
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Roman Baths, 99 discovered subsequently to a deed dated Sept. 1808 therefore inthat year or subsequently) is also figured by the Rev. PrebendaryScarth, as on the south end of the same western bath and a pieceof a rectangular exedra as the eastern ^all of this western bathand the boundary between it and the Great Bath. All these fragments I have lately proved to be portions of theGreat Roman Bath, (Plates VII. and VIII.) and being withininstead of without that building. The Rev. Prebendary Scarthomits altogether to figure the southern rectangular exedra, foundat the same time as the last named discovery. He also omitsthe discoveries made in 1825 beneath the houses at the north-western end of York Street. In 1790 very valuable discoverieswere made in digging the foundation of the present PumpRoom. Many writers have treated of them and expressedopinions as to the character of the work and the meaning ofthe design, and Mr. Scharf, in Archceologia, Vol. xxxvi., hasdone ample justice to the

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