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“...ANGUILLA
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tedium of the journey! The old Bath House TbeBath
Hotel, near Charlestown, should certainly be in- Hotel,
spected. Now a ruin, it serves as a link with
the past, when Nevis was the most popular
island in the Caribbean for white people, and
visitors leave with the impression that, given
capital and energy, it might be now a well-known
health resort. The springs near the hotel are
of undoubted efficacy in the treatment of gout,
lumbago, and kindred ills to which the flesh is
heir. They used as far back as 1670 to be
“ much frequented for the curing of the several
distempers of the Body of man,” to quote Blome.
The temperature of the water is 100* Fahr., and it is
in all probability the heat rather than the mineral
contents of the spring which produces beneficial
results. A bath can be had in perfect comfort
for the moderate charge of is., towels, coffee, &c.,
being obtainable from the attendant who lives in
the old Bath House premises.
ANGUILLA
The snakeless Snake Island
Anguilla...”
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