Excerpt from American Seaside Resorts: A Hand-Book for Health and Pleasure Seekers, Describing the Atlantic Coast, From the St. Lawrence River to the Gulf of Mexico At all the great watering-places, in fact, at most hotels, there is some generally understood signal, which marks the bathing hour; but there are many places where signals, and life-boats, and bathing-masters are unknown. To the uninitiated we would say that the last half of the flood is the proper time to bathe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.