Here are hot, cold, shower, and vapour baths, for the invalid and the convalescent; and an illimitable ocean bath of spotless purity, for the recreation of the healthy bather and the experienced swimmer. On the beach and sands are found a variety of beautiful pebbles. The opening of a new road, and the cutting away the base of Waldon hill, in 1842, brought the beautiful beach along the sands of Livermead within ten minutes' walk of Torquay. Here are all the usual requisites of a favourite watering place, including assembly rooms, reading rooms, libraries, literary institutions, a museum, &.; and a regatta takes place yearly in July of August. The climate of Torquay is so mild, that citrons are produced in the open air, and myrtles grow in gardens to a great size and age, as also do many tender exotics.

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