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“...This stone
was put up by his widow.
The old Bath House Hotel, a conspicuous building a
little more than quarter mile to the south-west of Charles-
town, should certainly be inspected. It serves as a link
with the past, when Nevis was the most popular island in
the Caribbean for white people and a fashionable health
resort. It is here that are situated the famous hot springs
known as “ The Bath,” which have a temperature of
1080 Fahr., and prove of undoubted efficacy in the treat-
ment of gout, lumbago, sciatica, and kindred ills to which
the flesh is heir.
The Bath House was erected late in the eighteenth
century by John Huggins, a merchant of Charlestown,
whose remains lie in a vault in St. Paul’s Church (see
above). The actual date of its construction is not known,
but on a stone the numbers 17— are still clearly de-
cipherable, and the others might be 87 or 89. It is stated
to have cost £40,000, and there is no reason to doubt
this, for it is very solidly built of stone—so solidly,
indeed...”
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