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at the level of low water under the building, to a distance of one 
hundred and eighty feet, until it joins with a vertical tunnel from 
the top. The tide ebbs and flows in this horizontal tunnel; and 
the pumps in the vertical one, are so placed as always to get 
their supply at high water. In order to have the supply as free 
from vegetable impurities as possible, a wooden trunk has been 
carried from the entrance of the tunnel to a distance of one hun- 
dred and five feet into the sea; having gratings at small di- 
stances to intercept the weed, which might be driven into the 
pumps by the violence of the tide. This tunnel has a sluice at 
its upper extremity for the purpose of clearing out the sand 
which may subside at the bottom by means of a back current. 
The pumps are worked by horses; and the water after being 
raised 110 feet, flows into a large reservoir, from which it is 
conveyed through pipes into the boilers and other parts of the 
building. 
The building which contains the baths is 120 feet long and 
34 feet deep, fronting the sea. This building is divided into 
three parts, viz. a circular centre, with the baths and dressing- 
rooms in each wing; the’ front is finished with handsome stone 
ornaments. Two flights of steps conduct into the saloon fi- 
nished with pilasters at equal distances on its circumference, and 
is furnished with the daily papers, reviews, and other periodical 
publications for the accommodation of those who use the baths, 
and the floor is five feet above the level of the promenade for the 
advantage of a more extended prospect, and surmounted with 
an elegant ornamented dome-ceiling. The semicircumference 
of this room is open towards the sea; and a person seated in 
the centre of it commands one of the most extensive and varied 
prospects in the world. The country from Pegwell to Canter- 
bury;—the bay itself in its whole sweep; point of Dover; the 
shipping in the Downs; the coast of France from Dunkirk toe 
‘Boulogne; and in the afternoon when the cliffs are illuminated 
‘by the setting sun, every indentation of the coast is clearly dis- 
cernible to the naked eye, appearing but a few miles distant ; 
immediately under the windows, the shipping in Ramsgate har- 
bour, and its celebrated pier stretching into the bay. In the 
evening the glimmering of the several light-houses in the distance, 
the lamps of the vessels passing through the channel, the bright 
light on the pier-head illuminating the foreground, form altogether 
one of the most enchanting scenes we have ever witnessed. 
The baths, which are formed of white marble, are each placed 
‘in a room, lighted and ventilated from the ceiling, and commu- 
nicating with their separate dressing-rooms. They are in length, 
width and depth, of the dimensions of the eclebrated warm baths 
at Naples, which are so large as to allow invalids using the fric- 
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