The Antient Pavement Of The
Bath Is Still Intire; All The Rubbish Has Been Cleared Away; And
The Baths, In A Great Measure, Restored On The Old Plan, Though
They Are Not At Present Used For Any Thing But Ornament.
The
water is collected into two vast reservoirs, and a canal built
and lined with hewn stone.
There are three handsome bridges
thrown over this vast canal. It contains a great body of
excellent water, which by pipes and other small branching canals,
traverses the town, and is converted to many different purposes
of oeconomy and manufacture. Between the Roman bath and these
great canals, the ground is agreeably laid out in pleasure-walks.
for the recreation of the inhabitants. Here are likewise
ornaments of architecture, which savour much more of French
foppery, than of the simplicity and greatness of the antients. It
is very surprizing, that this fountain should produce such a
great body of water, as fills the basin of the source, the Roman
basin, two large deep canals three hundred feet in length, two
vast basins that make part of the great canal, which is eighteen
hundred feet long. eighteen feet deep, and forty-eight feet
broad. When I saw it, there was in it about eight or nine feet of
water, transparent as crystal. It must be observed, however, for
the honour of French cleanliness, that in the Roman basin,
through which this noble stream of water passes, I perceived two
washerwomen at work upon children's clouts and dirty linnen.
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