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CHEMICAL EXAMINATION. 
Results in 
Determinations. Grains per | Parts per 
| Gallon. 100,000. 
Total solid matter dried at 130°C. 44 it BoA ipa: | 63.0 
Chlorine... ie 53 M5) eer wt d)aT 8.2 
Equivalent to Chlorides (60% Cl. ) ee Ms PS) bee! 5) 13.6 
Nitric Nitrogen... s oe »-| 0.37 0.54 
Equivalent to Nitrates (1 17%, Je aE = = reg Ieee | 3.2 
Nitrites : ... Absent | Absent 
Hardness : Permanent 8.4: Temporary 9 9. 6; Total 18.2 2| 26.0 
Lead, Copper, Zinc, Iron .. .-| Absent Absent 
Free Ammonia se aS as % “ -- 0.0004 0.0006 
Organic Ammonia .. ae sf .. 0.0014 0.0020 
Oxygen absorbed at 98°F. in 3hours a ../ 0.0189 | 0.0270 
Nov. 26th, 1908. (Signed) Joun C. THRESH. 
So highly have the inhabitants appreciated their mineral springs that they 
adopted them in designing the Arms of the island, and as the device on their 
postage stamps. At the British Museum is a proof impression, in red wax, 
of the Great Seal of Nevis in Queen Victoria’s reign [xcviii, 20]. On it isa 
group of three figures emblematical of succouring a colonist in distress. In 
the background is a spring of water issuing from a rock. In the Stamp 
Collectors’ Magazine for January, 1867, Mr. I. B. Brown, then Postmaster 
of Nevis, thus described the design on the Island’s stamps :—‘‘ The device 
on the Nevis postage stamps is a facsimile of the Great Seal of the colony, 
and represents issuing out of the sides of a hill a stream of water which, falling 
to the ground, forms a pool wherein a sick female is reclining supported with 
one hand by a companion, who extends the other to the presiding genius or 
nymph of the stream for a bowl which the latter is filling from a pitcher of water 
drawn from the stream.” 
The baths, like the Island itself, fell upon evil times ; and about 1870 the 
Bath House became unfit for habitation and was closed as a guest-house. 
Thanks to Mr. Chamberlain, however, a revival of the prosperity of Nevis has 
followed upon the abolition of the Bounty system, and, as a consequence, 
the proprietors of the land on which the Bath House stands, Messrs. Gillespie, 
Bros. & Co., of 23, Crutched Friars, London, E.C., and of 4, Stone street, New 
York City, U.S.A., have felt justified, after forty years of disuse, in restoring 
the old hostel. This enterprising firm have issued a pamphlet telling of the 
virtues of the mineral waters, and illustrated with pictures of the Bath House 
from within and without. The following extracts from the pamphlet, which 
bears the simple title—Bath House, Nevis, will give West India health seekers 
some idea of the comfortable, and even luxurious, sanatorium that is within 
easy reach of their respective colonies. 
