Health resorts of Britain : and how to profit by them / by Spencer Thomson.

  • Thomson, Spencer, 1848-1883.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Health resorts of Britain : and how to profit by them / by Spencer Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    staff in hand, and knapsack on back, and trudges off on his pedestrian tour to Wales, Derbyshire, or Scotland, or, indeed, anywhere to which his own peculiar pursuits or fancies lead. Of such pedestrian tourists, Mr. White —the author of the Londoner's Walk to the Land's End, and Month in Yorkshire —is the model; but they are of all sorts—sportsmen, it may be—adding a fly- rod to their equipment, and a dish of trout to their even- ing meals on their progress—or geologists, or botanists. Happy are they who can walk their suuimer tour— happy, because of the greatly added enjoyment which they thus derive from their trip, and from the increased benefit to themselves; happy, too, in the indication which such a mode of touring gives of yet vigorous health and limbs ; but not unhappy must they be counted who, like the more famihar personage. Pater- familias, too stout, perhaps too lazy, for active touring, quietly departs with all his belongings, by rail, to some noted or quiet-going sea-side place, as his tastes may be. Now, all these persons we have enumerated are fre- quenters of Health Resorts, but they are not invalids ; they go to keep health, not to recover it; they go, not to drink waters redolent of sulphuretted hydrogen, or inky with iron impregnation; they are not flying from North-Easters with consumption in their train, but they simply go to seek the health-revivers of good fresh air, plenty of exercise, and freedom from business care, adding, it may be—perhaps not always wisely—a little sea-bathing to their other luxuries. There are, however, frequenters of Health Resorts