with the architecture or the other sculpture we have found.[19] There are several grooves in the schola for branches of this pipe:  1st.  The continuation of it to the northern semi-circular bath of 1755. 2nd.  From the first soldered joint to baths on the north of the Great Bath. 3rd.  Along the western end of the latter to baths on the south, and along the schola to the south circular bath of Lucas’s.  Beneath the mutilated sculpture is a second pedestal, or plinth, perfectly plain, with the upper surface sunk to a level corresponding with a similar indentation on the third step.  Within this must have stood a marble on bronze sarcophagus, the base of which was 6ft. 9in. long by 2ft. 5in. wide.  The water flowing through the aperture previously described would run into the sarcophagus (I use the word in its modern sense) and from it into the bath.  This water was not poured in sufficient volume to perceptibly cool the bath, but was provided for the thirst of the bathers.  In the modern baths of Bath there is no such provision.

[Footnote 16:  The construction of the steps to the baths deserves remark (some of the stones being 10ft. long).  The depth of the riser to the steps that were beneath the water is unusually deep, and the treads narrow.  This is compensated by the increased buoyancy of a human body when immersed, or partially immersed, in water.  The steps have, on the contrary, a shallower rise and a wider tread when they approach the top.  The next notable point is the formation of the tread of the upper flooded step.  This is grooved by a somewhat circular sinking, from 4 to 5in. wide, immediately against the riser of the topmost step.  Everyone frequenting a public bath must have noticed the dashing of the water against the wall or upper step, and the nuisance created from the breaking of the water against it.  The grooving would remedy, I believe, this annoyance, as the little waves of water would be made to take a curved form before reaching the step; consequently the water would fall back into the bath instead of dashing over the surrounding platform.  And in the ends of every upper step but one, and on the steps lower down, have been square sockets, cut in the stone and filled up again with pieces of stone.  These mark the position of balusters to a hand-rail for the use of bathers that were removed some time previous to the abandonment of the baths, and the stones were inserted.  These hand-rails were doubtless of bronze, and therefore of value.]

[Footnote 17:  A statue of some size doubtless stood on this pedestal.]

[Footnote 18:  This deposit must, from the thickness, have taken several years to form, and the fact of its being of precisely the same character as the present deposit from the mineral spring is an evidence of the unchanging nature of the water.]

[Footnote 19:  With reference to the sculpture, one piece, of debased character, has been found—­a Minerva with a breast-plate, helmet, and shield in alto relievo within a niche.]