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Gen. James Watson Webb, said in 1870, that ''from the first 

 of November to the first of June, there is not, in all probability, 

 any spot on the face of the earth so desirable for persons suffer- 

 ing from pulmonary complaints." From the facts and opinions 

 we have given, the reader will judge whether this unqualified 

 recommendation is not too broad and sweeping. 



Dr. F. A. Castle, editor of "New Remedies," with more dis- 

 crimination, and we think truth, said in 1877, that " in those 

 forms of lung trouble where there is profuse expectoration and 

 perspiration, we should hardly think of recommending patients 

 to visit the Baliamas. But in the early stages of chronic pneu- 

 monia and catarrhal pneumonia, in tubercules, convalescence 

 from acute diseases, and in exhaustion from over- work and woi-ry, 

 the advantage of being able to live, if necessary, out of doors, 

 without the fatigue of heavy clothing, the comparative freedom 

 from risk of catching cold, and the purety of the atmosphere, 

 render this one of the most healthful as well as available resorts 

 of which we have any knowledge." 



The Rev. Dr. Nelson Millard, writing from Nassau in March, 

 1876, said, '' Such a climate, if resorted to in time, often works 

 with wondrous curative power upon affections of the throat, 

 bronchia and lungs — as in the case of bronchitis, I can testify 

 from personal experience." 



Epes Sargent, Esq., a gentleman of considerable literary cul- 

 ture, but whose opinion may be unconsciously biased from the 

 fact that he keeps a boarding house at Nassau, says, " that for 

 all [?] diseases of the lungs, throat, liver, kidneys, or spine, there 

 is no climate on the face of the earth superior, and I doubt if any 

 equal, to the climate of Nassau." And again, " some most won- 

 derful cures of pulmonary diseases, asthma, rheumatism, neural- 

 gia and bronchitis liave been performed almost entirely by the 

 climate. In the first stage of the disease, recovery is almost 



