Buildings.

Probably two sets of block buildings would be required, one at the foot of the hills and the other on the high-level plateau before referred to. These would comprise the usual accommodation of a first-class hotel, with the assembly rooms and social arrangements usual at fashionable watering places. The residences on the hills would be connected with the low grounds and baths by cable tramways and winding drives and paths through the ornamental grounds on the slopes.

At suitable places on the hills and lake headlands, detached villas and gardens would be built, having from three or four to six or eight rooms. These could be erected as the demand increased, and let furnished, with board and attendance if necessary; but, as before mentioned, nothing in the way of monopolising the page 9 residential amenities of the district should be attempted. The object of connecting villa residences with the scheme is to ensure a certain amount of that accommodation being available under known rules and management.

As a matter of course, the buildings would vary in architectural design with their situation and purpose, but a few points must be observed in construction to ensure stability and permanence when situated near the sulphurous vapours always arising from the waters in most repute in any locality. The foundations and basement floors must be of concrete. All doors and windows must have galvanized hangings and fastenings. All nails must be well punched in and stopped. All paint must be silicious. All roofs slated, and nailed with galvanized nails. But on the high levels and on the borders of the lake, and a short distance away from the hot springs generally no such precautions are necessary.

Another point of extreme importance may be noted, viz., the disposal of sewage. Here we must begin as all towns in England are being compelled to end, and no sewerage should ever be discharged into the lake. From the first, all the well-known and generally practised arrangements must be enforced, to preserve the purity of the waters.