The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-bathing Places: Southern spas |
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Page 361 - Will not this impressive fact induce persons of rank and influence to set their countrywomen right in the article of dress, and lead them to abandon a practice which disfigures the body, strangles the chest, produces nervous or other disorders, and has an unquestionable tendency to implant an incurable hectic malady in the frame ? Girls have no more need of artificial bones and bandages than hoys.
Page 509 - Southern coast possesses so many capabilities of being made the very first invalid sea watering-place in England ; and not only a watering- place, but what is still more important, a winter residence for the most delicate constitutions requiring a warm and sheltered locality at this season of the year.
Page 372 - Twas a glorious sight to behold the fair sex All wading with gentlemen up to their necks, And view them so prettily tumble and sprawl In a great smoking kettle as big as our hall...
Page 401 - twas a shame I should swallow such stuff, When my bowels were weak, and the physic so rough; Declar'd she was shock'd that so many should come To be doctor'd to death such a distance from home, At a place where they tell you that water alone Can cure all distempers that ever were known.
Page 361 - English women died in one year of the incurable malady ! Will not this impressive fact induce persons of rank and influence to set their countrywomen right in the article of dress, and lead them to abandon a practice which disfigures the body, strangles the chest, produces nervous or...
Page 509 - Bourne superior to the back of the Isle of Wight, from its entire exposure to the south, with a full protection from the easterly winds, to which Ventnor on the contrary is indirectly exposed. I hardly need touch upon its superiority as a bathing-place to any in the neighbourhood, or along these coasts. It is as an inland sheltered haven for the most tender invalids, however, that I would call your attention to the great capabilities of Bourne; for we look in vain elsewhere for that singular advantage...
Page 504 - The sands over which the bathers have to walk are well known as of the finest description; the declivity of the shore is almost imperceptible, and totally free from those obstructions which are noticed on many parts of the southern coast, so that the most timid can indulge in the luxury of open sea-bathing, with the additional comfort of perfect security, and of sea-water pure, clean, and transparent. Neat and commodious warm salt-water baths will also be found on the south parade, opposite the harbour.
Page 506 - I LOOK upon Bournemouth, and its yet unformed colony, as a perfect discovery among the sea-nooks one longs to have for a real invalid, and as the realization of a desideratum we vainly thought to have found elsewhere on the south coast of England.
Page 510 - You must not let in strangers and brick-and-mortar contractors, to build up whole streets of lodging houses, or parades, and terraces interminable, in straight lines facing the sea, the roaring sea, and the severe gales, that make the frames of an invalid's bedroom casement rattle five days in the week at least, and shake his own frame in bed also.
Page 462 - The proper time for bathing here is at high water, bnt there are hot and cold baths, that can be taken at any hour, conveniently situated under the Beacon-terrace. Like many other maritime towns in Devonshire, Exmouth has in its immediate neighbourhood a valley sheltered on all sides from the winds, and capable of affording a genial retreat to those affected with complaints in the lungs. This will be found at Salterton, four miles to the east, and here the romantic caverns of the secluded bay, the...