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The Bulletin
Fix this text“The Bulletin/* VoL 65 —No. 3372
Fix this textWednesday, September 27, 1944
Fix this textPrice 6d.
Fix this textRegistered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for Transmission by Post as a Newspaoer,
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Fix this textBATH.
Fix this textTRADITION credits the discovery of the springs of Bath to a
Fix this textBritish prince named Bladud, and about a.d. 44 the Romans
Fix this textbuilt a watering-place here, with extensive baths and temples, of
Fix this textwhich numerous remains have been discovered, and named their
Fix this textsettlement Aquae Solis or Sul is. In 577 the town was taken and
Fix this textdestroyed by Saxons, whose name for the place was Akemanceaster.
Fix this textAt a later date it reappears in history as.Aet Bathum, and during
Fix this textthe twelfth century it was the seat of a bishop, and even to this day
Fix this textthe diocese is-still called “Bath and Wells.”
Fix this textThe beginning of Bath’s modern reputation as a spa may be placed
Fix this textabout 1650, and when Queen Anne came in 1703 Bath became
Fix this textthe fashionable winter watering-place in England. No other town in
Fix this textBritain has so often been the theme of literary allusions, from
Fix this text“Humphrey Clinker,” “The Pickwick Papers” and “The Virginians”
Fix this textto Compton McKenzie’s “The Passionate Elopement.” Bath cele-
Fix this textbrates by memorial tablets visits of many famous people, including
Fix this textSir Walter Scott (1775), Nelson (1780), Wordsworth and General
Fix this textWolfe (1759) and Sheridan (1772),
Fix this textWith its terraces rising gently from the valley of the Avon, Bath
Fix this textis one of the most picturesque cities in Europe.
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Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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