Excerpt from An Illustration of the Roman Antiquities Discovered at Bath Were we to give credit to the fanciful descriptions of Jeffery of Monmouth, and other fabling assertors of the British antiquities, we should believe, that the arts and sciences, the elegancies, luxuries, and refinements of life, were known and practised by the Britons, long before their communication with the Romans; and we might be persuaded, that even Bath itself made a considerable figure, as a city, some centuries previous to the Christian aera. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."