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Send you inclosed the draught of an Hypocaustum, or Bath, discover'd at Netherby, 10 miles north from Carlisle. You may compare it with another at Cast-steeds communicated to you (see Vol. p. 650, Vol.  p. 30, 31, and Vol. . p. 60.)

The rooms mark'd c were the sudatories, or sweating places, where the people retired after bathing. a a were for exercise, &c. That mark'd f, a bath for ablution; a necessary part of the Heathen theology in the worship of Fortune, to whom the altar is consecrated, which is also in another of your Magazines (see Vol. X. p. 171.) The communicating funnels (b) supply'd the fire with fresh pabulum of air, and at the same time the pipes (d) heated the sudatories



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