The Bath waters : their uses and effects in the cure and relief of various chronic diseases / by James Tunstall.

  • Tunstall, James, -1880.
Date:
1868
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Credit: The Bath waters : their uses and effects in the cure and relief of various chronic diseases / by James Tunstall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    ► 5 vales, and the pretty sequestered villages, with their varied views, exceed in picturesqueness and subdued grandeur those presented by any other celebrated locality in England. Bath presents great advantages in reference to comfort and economy. The Great Western Railway has made it almost a suburb of London, and, by its various branches, brought it within an easy distance of the watering-places on the South and West Coast and the whole of Wales. The Midland Railway gives it a direct railway communication with the North, whilst the steam navigation between Bristol and Ireland is in- creasing in efficiency and importance every day. Its Lodging-houses are not the mere lath-and- plaster erections of yesterday, run up to last out a building lease, but are substantial residences of freestone. Erected without regard to expense, when Bath was the chosen city of gaiety and fashion, they astonish the stranger with their magnificence and comfort; no meretricious orna- ment is obtruded on our notice : their quiet air of gentility and moderate rental are their best re- commendation. The New Market, lately constructed, is one of the best, cheapest, and most commodious in the kingdom. Railway communication with the coast supplies it with a profusion of fresh fish ; poultry of