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GARDEN BATH HOUSES 



QUAINT RUSTIC SHELTERS AND HIGHLY ORNATE 



STRUCTURES ARE BEING BUILT IN HARMONY 



WITH THE ADJOINING SWIMMING POOL 



ON lauding at Hamilton, Bermuda, the visitor, 

 who has been enjoying fascinating glimpses of fairy- 

 land in the blending of colorful sky and water, and 

 green hills dotted with pure white houses, finds that 

 the first view of the famous harbor includes many 

 picturesque structures along the shore among them 

 the quaintest imaginable of bath houses. The pri- 

 vate bath houses of beautiful old homes that have 

 stood for a century or more, where the gardens 

 reach out into the coves of Hamilton Harbor, prove 

 a special attraction. They are usually built in cir- 

 cular or octagonal form, of the white coral rock dug 

 from beneath the top soil of the garden. The sturdy 

 platform, the side walls, and the roof are all of the 

 white rock and white tiling that is seemingly inde- 

 structible, as it is encountered everywhere in the 

 Bermuda Islands, in the old, old buildings as well 

 as in the more modern types. 



Among the beautiful estates in this English 

 country of perpetual summer, set in mid-ocean, there 



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