. Railroadiana. A new history of England, or, Picturesque, biographical, historical, legendary and antiquarian sketches. Descriptive of the vicinity of the railroads . an ruin of a less magnificentcharacter is to be disregarded. The pleasure derived fromsuch scenes, is that which carries the mind back to the time ofa great people, now extinct—the examining the works of handswhich have long since passed into dust, and the pacing ofapartments tenanted by unknown families, who have left novestige of their rank, but the places where they ate, drank, slept,and bathed. It is such considerations as t
. Railroadiana. A new history of England, or, Picturesque, biographical, historical, legendary and antiquarian sketches. Descriptive of the vicinity of the railroads . an ruin of a less magnificentcharacter is to be disregarded. The pleasure derived fromsuch scenes, is that which carries the mind back to the time ofa great people, now extinct—the examining the works of handswhich have long since passed into dust, and the pacing ofapartments tenanted by unknown families, who have left novestige of their rank, but the places where they ate, drank, slept,and bathed. It is such considerations as these which, in ouropinion, render any object of antiquity, however mean incharacter, worthy of examination. It is a habit with the honest but unlearned portion of thepublic, to associate with all that is ancient, the abbeys andmonasteries of the country, all of which Henry the VIII,enjoys the reputation of having ruined. Tlie name ofCromwell is equally famous for the destruction of castlesand decapitating statues. Thus in the neighbourhood of thisRoman villa, you will be told, that it might have been anabbey or a monastery; for there were baths, and all Joint of the Camimifi, or flue, for conveying: Steam into the Sudatoria, or vapourbaths, discovered in the Roman Villa near Backingham. THE ROMAN VILLA. 167 Baths in a monastery ! Such indulgences were not alwaysamong the luxuries of the monastic times. The Romansdid as they do at Rome. Whatever country they conqueredor settled, their fashions and customs were carried thither;just as in our day the Enghsh have introduced horse races intoFrance. No Roman house of any note was without its baths,and there having already been discovered several in the viUa inquestion, sufficiently proves that it has been the habitation ofno mean nor obscure individual. It is because the floors of the apartments and the foundationsof the building are all that remain, that we are more particularlyattracted to the baths. The uses of other room
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