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HYGEIA HOTEL.
Fortress Monroe, which is the largest single fortification in the world, is at Old Point Comfort. The situation is unsurpassed for healthfulness; and it is the custom of the Government to send troops there to recuperate that have seen hard service elsewhere. The climate is singularly mild, but bracing, and for persons with delicate lungs, coming from a northern climate, it is admirably adapted, as the atmosphere is not so debilitating as that of more tropical resorts. In common with most of Eastern Virginia it enjoys entire immunity from all violent forms of eruptive diseases and fevers. Measles and scarlet fever, on being brought there, assume perfectly mild and tractable types. Malarial fevers are absolutely unknown, and not a single case of typhoid fever was ever known to originate at Old Point. Many physicians believe that genuine typhoid fever is unknown in Eastern Virginia, the disease going by that name being perfectly manageable and non-contagious. The temperature is remarkably even, being exempt from torrid heats and frigid cold. The Artillery School of the United States is located here, and Hampton Roads, the finest roadstead in the world, is a rendezvous for naval ships. Hampton, the oldest town in Virginia, and containing the oldest church on this continent, is within three miles, over a shell road. There, also, is located the State Normal School, for the education of negroes and Indians; and between Hampton and Old Point is the Soldiers’ Home, for disabled veterans. The Hygeia, the only hotel allowed by the Government, is substantial and elegant, and accommodates a thousand guests. It is about one hundred yards from the wharf, and the water comes to the foot of the plazas, of which there are about 35,000 square feet in the house, 15,000 of which are inclosed with glass, which enables the most delicate invalid to enjoy the sunlight and sea view. Hot and cold sea baths are on every floor. It has elevators, electric bells, etc. It is one minute’s walk from the fortress. Daily communication is had with New York by the Old Dominion Steamship Company, with Baltimore by the Bay Line steamers, and with Washington by the Potomac Steamboat Company, and a branch of the Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation Company, all these steamers proceeding to Norfolk, which is thirteen miles away; with Richmond by the Old Dominion Line and the James River Steamboat Company. It is on the direct route of travel to the South. The hotel has no particular season, but is under the same régime the whole year round. The records of the Meteorological Observatory, for the past ten years, show an average temperature of 60°, 74°, 76°, in summer; 70°, 59°, 40° in autumn; 45°, 44°, 42°, in winter; and 48°, 52°, 63°, for spring.
THE GREAT BIBLE DICTIONARY.
BY WILLIAM SMITH.