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    IN THE WEALD OF SUSSEX. 247

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    It -Was At The Season Wlien Hundreds And...

    roof bases — ; of and cap illars itals and which of cornice have fallen sas on well it ; but as all the the accumulation pieces of stone of

    stucco in p fragments from the walls , , have been removed—so that much is left to the imagination . It seems a pity that so little of

    unburied the original capitals villa and should cornices have should been not allowed have to been remain sli preserved ht — sketch that , but its of

    —but I must not ramble now , for I must finish my g the Roman villa . This villa must have been very extensive ; for besides the rooms

    Roman ments I have , s alread vary used ing y for described in takin size , , walking running there were exercis along many e side indoors whole galleries . ranges In , such one of of as apart these the

    galleries , which was ten g feet wide and two hundred and twenty-seven feet long , part of its blue and red tesselated pavement remains at one

    endbut almost two-thirds of it have been utterly destroyed , no doubt by The the , Romans plough . were wiser in their generation than we are ! What

    walk an excellent in a clim sanitary ate like provision that of Brit for ain exercise ; and their was b this aths— long I forgot covered * to

    mention that at one corner of the great quadrangle round which all these rooms and galleries were builtthere still exist the remains

    of a bath-roomthe dimensions of which , are thirty-five feet by thirty . The bath itself , which must have been coldis about eighteen feet

    b the y twelve bath-ro , and om , is rather not ornamental more than three but consists feet , deep merel . The y of pavement black and of

    white stones , six inches square , , and laid cornerwise . The bath , which had been letelfilled by the ruins of roofwallsand bits

    compy , , of cornice that had fallen into it , was a good deal broken . Besides this cold baththere to have been vapouror sweating baths

    , appear , , the apparatus for heating them being very evident . The Avails—or I should rather the foundations of the wallssince that is all

    say , that now remains of them—vary from two and a half to three feefc in thickness .

    Roman During remains two or were three first summers discovered following visitors that cam in e which from , a these

    dismany tance to see the place , * and amongst them , as my guide informed me with no little satisfactionwas Her Royal Highness the Princess

    , Charlotte . Other grandees there were also , of more or less notebut as acquaintance does not lie amongst titled people , I paid too

    little attention my to their names to recollect many of them . The Duke of Norfolk—Charles , the fourteenth Duke—visited

    the place unbury repeatedl ing y and , and cle took aning great of the interest various in mosaic the gradual pavements dis- .

    Being covery overtures , a man for of purchasing considerable , some taste of the in . such most m perfect atters , of lie 'the even mosaic made s ,

    which he would have caused to be removed carefully and laid down in his magnificent library at " the Castle" —which means Arundel

    Castle , people in this neighborhood , as I observed , always speak-

    In The Weald Of Sussex. 247

    IN THE WEALD OF SUSSEX . 247

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/31/