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in search of health or amusement to feel, that in 

 choosing Haifa as their winter resort, they are contri- 

 buting indirectly to the prosperity and development 

 of a country to whose restoration so many sacred 

 promises are attached. Haifa may be reached by the 

 Austrian Lloyd's steamers, which touch there once a 

 fortnight, either from Beyrout or from Alexandria. 

 Letters, however, arrive by the land-post every week ; 

 and there can be no doubt that if sufficient inducement 

 offered, the Messagerie and Russian boats, which pass 

 it every week on their way from Beyrout to Jaffa and 

 Egypt, would call here. Besides which, the commer- 

 cial lines of Moss and Ball occasionally look in, and 

 would do so regularly with a very little more encour- 

 agement. It depends upon the public to remedy its 

 present comparative isolation, which, however, to many 

 may prove rather an attraction than a drawback. 



