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Identifier: californiaalaska00webbrich (find matches)
Title: California and Alaska, and over the Canadian Pacific railway
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Webb, William Seward, 1851-1926
Subjects: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company California Central Railroad Union Pacific railroad company Canadian Pacific Railway Company California -- Description and travel Pacific Coast -- Description and travel Alaska -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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located on the sec-ond story of the Hotel Del Monte, facing thesouth, our rooms all being sunny, and ourcomfort provided for in the most thoughtfulmanner by the hotel proprietor. We met hereseveral invalids, who spoke most enthusiasti-cally of the health-restoring properties of theplace. They told us how they had stopped atThomasville, the Hot Springs, at Las Vegas,Pasadena, and other places, of how they hadsuffered there in one way or the other, andadded that after they arrived in Monterey,and had been there a few days, they felt as ifthey were on the sure road to health. Every- Monterey 57 thing at this place tends to make one feelcheerful and hopeful. We noticed that thenumber of healthy people far exceeded thecontingent of invalids, which is a very impor-tant factor in the cure of disease, and therewere none of those depressing surroundingswhich are so often met with at the regularhealth resorts. The bathing pavilion connected with thehotel is certainly a wonder in its way. It is
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^~,-^ /^tnK,/^<a*«<_ quite large, being about four hundred feetsquare, has a glass roof, and is filled withpalms. In the centre are four large tanks.In the first one, used for women and children,the water is from three to four feet deep, andits temperature about eighty-five degrees.The next tank is about five feet deep, with atemperature of seventy-five degrees; the thirdabout seven feet deep, with a temperature ofseventy. The fourth tank is about eight feet 58 To California and Alaska. deep, and contains the natural sea-water,which is pumpeci into it without being heated.The accommodations in the way of dressing-rooms, in both the male and female departments,are perfect in their way. It is certainly oneof the most complete bathing establishments inthe country. Those who have read Danas Two Yearsbefore the Mast will remember that he speaksof visiting Monterey, at a time when its lifemust have been very picturesque. He speaksof the pride people took in tracing back theirancestry

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