! tning machines are ranged along the their proper utensils and attendants. ver seen one of these machines Image Imai, snug, wooden chamber, fixed age, having a door at each end, sae, a little window above, a bench atner, ascending into this apartment steps, sauts himself in, and begins to the attendant yokes a horse to the e sea, and draws the carriage forwards, the water is on a level with the ressing-room; then he moves and fixes ther end. The person within, beng oor to the seaward, where he y, a plunges headlong into the rated, he re-ascends into the Seps veien had been shifted for as clothes at his leisure, awn rack again upon the dry Quinting further to do but to open awar is he went up. Should equire a servant to put › Livres tere s room enough in the en reupie. The guides who water, are of their own sex, atters have a dress of ay, Dev ure provided with other Support A Jecorum. A certain chines are fitted with tilts, that harbour, the bathing machines are ranged along the beach, with all their proper utensils and attendants. You have never seen one of these machines-Image to yourself a small, snug, wooden chamber, fixed upon a wheel-carriage, having a door at each end, and, on each side, a little window above, a bench below. The bather, ascending into this apartment by wooden steps, shuts himself in, and begins to undress, while the attendant yokes a horse to the end next the sea, and draws the carriage forwards, till the surface of the water is on a level with the floor of the dressing-room; then he moves and fixes the horse to the other end. The person within, being stripped, opens the door to the seaward, where he finds the guide ready, and plunges headlong into the water. After having bathed, he re-ascends into the apartment, by the steps which had been shifted for that purpose, and puts on his clothes at his leisure, while the carriage is drawn back again upon the dry land; so that he has nothing further to do but to open the door, and come down as he went up. he be so weak or ill as to require a servant to put off and on his clothes, there is room enough in the apartment for half a dozen people. The guides who attend the ladies in the water, are of their own sex, and they and the female bathers have a dress of flannel for the sea; nay, they are provided with other conveniences for the support of decorum. A certain number of the machines are fitted with tilts, the Should project from the sea-ward ends of them, so as to screen the bathers from the view of all persons whatsoever. The beach is admirably adapted for this practice, the descent being gently gradual, and the sand soft as velvet; but then the machines can be used only at a certain time of the tide, which varies every day; so that sometimes the bathers are obliged to rise very early in the morning. For my part, I love swimming as an exercise, and can enjoy it at all times of the tide, without the formality of an apparatus. You and I have often plunged together into the Isis; but the sea is a much more noble bath, for health as well as pleasure. You cannot conceive what a flow of spirits it gives, and how it braces every sinew of the human frame. Were I to enumerate half the diseases which are every day cured by sea-bathing, you might justly say you had received a treatise, instead of a letter, from your affectionate friend and servant, J. MELFORD. SCARBOROUGH, JULY 1. THE END OF VOL. I. anner, ks, Frome, and London. |