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Even so in England, Old Sarum was indeed the mother of Salisbury, and Caer Badon or Sulis was the mother of Bath. And when there was first a Fæsulæ on the hill here there could be no Florence, as when first there was an Old Sarum on the Wiltshire downs there could be no Salisbury, and when first there was a Caer Badon on the heights of Avon there could be no Bath.
The real history of Bath begins as early as A.D. 44, when it is known to have been a Roman station. Its Latin name was Aquae Sulis, Sul being a local divinity, whose name appears on several inscriptions in the Museum, and may have some connection with the neighbouring hill of Solsbury.
On carrying Konar up to the village of the Swamp afterwards Swamptown, later Aquae Sulis, ultimately Bath which had already begun to grow on the nearest height, they found that Bladud and his party had just arrived from the last of the searching expeditions. "What! Beniah?" exclaimed the prince, when the Hebrew met him. "You have soon returned to us. Is all well at home?" "All is well.
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