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during the late American war. It is so essential to the health 

 and comfort of invalids and tourists visiting Nassau, that we add 

 such other facts concerning it as strangers proposing to visit the 

 place will naturally desire to know. 



This hotel stands upon high ground, a little below the crest of 

 tlie hill upon which Nassau is built. Three-fourtlis of the square 

 enclosed by Shcrley, East, East Hill, and Parliament streets, is 

 occupied as a site for the hotel and for hotel purposes. It faces 

 the north, and commands, from all its front windows and piazzas, 

 a very fine view of the harlwr, its sheltering island, some neigli- 

 boring keys, and the out-lying ocean. It overlooks the judicial, 

 legislative and library buildings, and many jn-ivate buildings 

 Avith their embowering trees. Its elevation and exposure to the 

 full force of the 2)revailing winds, secures for it the full benefit 

 of those from tlie ocean, which, freighted with refreshment and 

 health, seldom cease to blow. 



The hotel proper is two hundred feet in length, four stories 

 high, and is well and substantially built of coralline lime- 

 stone, and is surmounted by an observatory which commands 

 a very extensive and fine view. Piazzas ten feet Avide surround 

 each of the three upper stories, upon Avhicli the windows, gen- 

 erally reaching to the floor, open; thus furnishing convenient 

 places for 2)romenades and sittings in the outside air, though 

 interfering somewhat at times, with tlie much to be desired 

 quiet and privacy of the adjacent rooms. Projecting from 

 the center of the building, directly over and of the same size 

 Avitli the mam parlor, there is a piazza in the third story, open 

 on the east, north and south sides, Avhich affords an extensive 

 vicAV greatly diversified and cliarmingly beautiful. Spacious 

 halls extend through the center of each story of the long build- 

 ing, with tiers of rooms upon each side. The old King's College 

 School building constitutes a part of the hotel. It is in a line 



