. Discovery. Science. DISCOVHin' 321 turtle '' and drowning in their sleep ! Such hardened habitues will spend three or four weeks at a stretch, practically with no break, in the water, and a case was mentioned to me by a friend. Professor Chamberlain, of the old caretaker of an inland spa who used to pass the whole winter in the soothing waters of his own particular spring. When my friend visited another spring in the summer the inhabitants apologised for their dirty condition ; " for," said they, " we are now so busy that we are only able to get two baths a day. " How oft
. Discovery. Science. DISCOVHin' 321 turtle '' and drowning in their sleep ! Such hardened habitues will spend three or four weeks at a stretch, practically with no break, in the water, and a case was mentioned to me by a friend. Professor Chamberlain, of the old caretaker of an inland spa who used to pass the whole winter in the soothing waters of his own particular spring. When my friend visited another spring in the summer the inhabitants apologised for their dirty condition ; " for," said they, " we are now so busy that we are only able to get two baths a day. " How often, then, do you manage to bathe in winter ? " he asked. " Oh, then we are not so busy and can have four or five baths a day, and the children get into the hot water whenever they feel cold. One spa I visited had a list of twenty-eight specific diseases it could cure, beginning with brain disease and ending with paralysis. The only complaint stated to be incurable was the disease of love ! The obstacles in the way of inland transport in Japan are indeed formidable, since three-quarters ul the country's area is mountain land. There is this year being celebrated the jubilee of the completion of tin first railway, the stretch of eighteen miles betwci n Tokyo and Yokohama, opened in 1871, but during the intervening years no less than six thousand miles have been added, and only those who are familiar with the immense and varied natural difficulties met with can adequately appreciate the greatness of this achievement. In the Nakasendo portion of the Central Railwayâbetween Kyoto and Tokyo, one of the most mountainous regions in the main islandâ 95 tunnels and 350 bridges had to be constructed. And yet, in spite of the immense progress thus accom- plished, there lie thousands of square miles of mountain- land and forest sparsely populated or inhabited onh' by a few charcoal-burners, fishermen, and wood-cutters, whose means of transport and of intercommunica- tion are of t
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