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Saratoga Springs, 1798 [ Places ]
… This hollow pyramid, or cone, has a hole in the top about six inches over. If we look into this hole we see the mineral warer boiling vehemently like a pot over the fire; the water is nevertheless intensely cold, and is said to be, in every … and reconciling you to the great expense attending there visits. … "If we look into this hole we see the mineral warer boiling vehemently like a pot over the fire; the water is nevertheless intensely cold..." … Spa … Jedidiah Morse, …
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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
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Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… An Interdisciplinary Journal (vol. 14, n° 3, July 25, 2016), p. 409–449. 2 . See, for example Harry B. Weiss and Howard R. Kemble, They Took the Waters. The Forgotten Mineral Spring Resorts of New Jersey and nearby Pennsylvania and Delaware (Trenton, NJ: The Past Times Press, 1961); Carol Sheils Roark, ‘Historic Yellow Springs: The Restoration of an … York along the Hudson Valley as well as nearby scenic Lake George and the areas historical significance in the American War of Independence, and seeking to establish a genteel sociability at their respective springs. Each began with the …
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… Square', Wikimedia Commons, 1784. Image InFilms, ‘View from Prior Park, Bath over gardens and the Palladian Bridge towards the city of Bath’, 2006, WikiCommons. Image Thomas Malton, ‘The Royal Crescent’, 1780, WikiCommons. Image Thomas … Celtic past (Cossic, Bath , 64-74). In their own way, the Woods participated in the forging of the nation. They were aware, like Ralph Allen, the City Mayor in 1742 and also a visionary entrepreneur, of the new needs of the emerging … formation. 29 25 . Haydn wrote in his notebook that ‘Bath was one of the most beautiful cities in Europe’. See Howard Chandler Robbins Landon (ed.), Haydn in England, 1791-1795 (London: Thames & Hudson, 1976), p. 266. 26 . Adam …
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