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Identifier: wessex00hollrich (find matches)
Title: Wessex
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Holland, Clive, 1866- Tyndale, Walter, 1855-1943
Subjects: Dorset (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Adam & Charles Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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lack art, and created the Bath by means of it,and by placing a mysterious stone in the spring whichhe found that made the water hot and capable ofhealing sick persons. Unfortunately for him, he becameso enamoured of his power that he attempted to flywith a pair of wings of his own construction, andalthough he managed to cover the distance from Bathto London successfully, when hovering above the lattercity his wings failed him, and, falling on to the roof ofthe Temple of Apollo, he was dashed to pieces. It seems probable, however, that the virtues of theBath springs were discovered first by the Romans, asthere is little doubt that they were used by them formedicinal purposes about a.d. 44. By the Romans thespot was known as Aquae Solis, and was one of theirmost important stations. Here they built a temple tothe goddess Minerva, and also instituted a college ofarmourers, which manufactured the weapons of thelegions. The Roman town was surrounded by walls, 204 fe BATH ABBEY AND PUMP-ROOM
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The Roman Baths which were approximately along the line formed by thestreets afterwards known as Lower Boroughwalls, West-gate Buildings, Sawclose, and Upper Boroughwalls :foundations of the ancient ramparts have been frequentlydiscovered when excavations have been made. Theymust have enclosed a considerable area, in which theprincipal buildings stood round about what after-wards became the site of the abbey churchyard. Thetemple which was speedily erected, and had a beautifulportico of Corinthian columns, stood near the site ofthe present pump-room. Many fragments were un-earthed at the end of the eighteenth century ; and theplatform on which another temple must have stood wasdiscovered whilst foundations were being dug at theWhite Hart Hotel in 1867. The Roman baths, for which, of course, the city ismore particularly noted, were of a most magnificentdescription, beautified with columns and tessellatedfloors, and ornamented in the most chaste of Romanstyles. The principal remains of

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