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Excerpt from The Gorgeous Isle
Bath house. This hotel was erected in 1804 at a cost of although built entirely by slaves. Its varied and brilliant career came to an end some time in the forties. The tide of fashion turned, and as it was too large for a private residence, it was left to the elements. Earth quakes have riven it, hurricanes unroofed it, and time devoured it, but it is still magnificent in its ruin.
Atlantis. Bacon, in The New Atlantis, assumes America to be the fabled continent of Atlantis, which, according to his theory, was not submerged, but ¿ooded to such an extent that all the inhabitants perished except the few that ¿ed to the highest mountain tops. I have, how ever, preferred to adopt the Platonic theory, as at once more plausible and interesting.
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