70 ISLES OF SUMMER. 
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 1t as strangers proposing to visit the 
place will naturally desire to know. 
This hotel stands upon high ground, a little below the crest of 
the hill upon which Nassau is built. Three-fourths of the square 
enclosed by Sherley, 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 harbor, its sheltering island, some neigh- 
boring keys, and the out-lying ocean. It overlooks the judicial, 
legislative and library buildings, and many private buildings 
with their embowering trees. Its elevation and exposure to the 
full force of the prevailing winds, secures for it the full benefit 
of those from the 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 wide surround 
each of the three upper stories, upon which the windows, gen- 
erally reaching to the floor, open; thus furnishing convenient 
places for promenades and sittings in the outside air, though 
interfering somewhat at times, with the 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 
with the main parlor, there is a piazza in the third story, open 
on the east, north and south sides, which affords an extensive 
view greatly diversified and charmingly 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 
