An introduction to American history, European beginnings (1919) (14778111394)

Identifier: introductiontoam00atki (find matches)
Title: An introduction to American history, European beginnings
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Atkinson, Alice M. (Alice Minerva), b. 1868
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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Remains of Old Roman Baths, at Bath, England called the atritim. Here waxen images of the ancestorsof the family and other relics of the past were kept, andhere visitors were received. The roof of the atrium wassupported by pillars, and in its center was a square open-ing by which the room was lighted. As the Romans donot seem to have made use of window glass, this opening
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70 THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN 71 was uncovered, and beneath it, in the colored mosaic pave-ment of the floor, was a marble basin to receive the rain.