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“...he
erected convenient baths, and at a short di^amce a large and
expensive stone edifice for the accommodation of invalids. This
stone was put up by his widow.
The old Bath Honse Hotel is a conspicuous building a
little more than quarter mile to the south-west of
Charlestown. It serves as a link with the past when
Nevis was a fashionable health resort. Here are situ-
ated the famous hot springs, which have a temperature
of 1080 Fahr., and prove of undoubted efficacy in the
treatment of gout, lumbago, sciatica, and kindred ills
to which the flesh is heir.
The actual date of the construction of the Bath House
is not known, but on a stone the figure 17— is still
clearly decipherable. The house 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, that it
has withstood the hurricanes of over a century. The
architect evidently sought to combine strength with
coolness, for it has lofty vaulted roofs, stone corridors,
and...”
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