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parterre of flowers on the one side and the sluggish and dirty Teple on the 

 other. As early as five o'clock in the morning, the little nymyjhs of the 

 Sprudel — smart, lively young lasses— are in attendance to distribute, with 

 critical impartiality, the bounty of their spring. They are all dressed alike, 

 in gi-een dresses in the morning, and in light-coloured robes in the evening. 

 Standing at a little distance from the boiling jet, and holding in their hanas 

 a stick, four feet long, with a cup-holder fastened to one end of it, these dam- 

 sels extend the latter towards any one whom they see aj, preaching with his 

 beaker, receive it in their cup-holder, and plunge it within the smoking 

 column of water. From this it is immediately withdrawn quite full, ana 

 presented to the same individual again, who, with what relish he may, dis- 

 poses of its contents." 



Falling into a philosophising mood, Dr. G. instituted an admira- 

 ble experiment, in the centre of a square and lofty pavillion where 

 the Sprudel rises. Thus, by means of accurate and diversified ob- 

 servations, he ascertained that there were some of the sickly who 

 sipped with pigeon-sips the salutary elixir, giving only a gentle 

 shudder as they drank it ; and these were ladies : there were others 

 who, more adventurous, swallowed half a beakerful at once, 

 with only a slight pursing up of the lips, and looked round for ap- 

 probation ; and these were esprits forts, the Sprudelian dandies : my 

 Lord A. and Sir J. L. looked grim when disposing of their dose, and 

 declared it had no taste . one who thought himself unseen, was de- 

 tected in bringing slily out of his large heniche a lump of sugar, 

 which he kept in his left hand ready to pop into his mouth the mo- 

 ment his beaker had quitted it ; and he was one of the subjects of 

 Mahmoud who had not yet exchanged the turban for the ugly and 

 tasselled red cap : another who had just received his beakerful of 

 the Sprudel from the fair hand of a green-mantled maiden who 

 eyed him with a malicious meaning, retired quickly into a corner, 

 and, turning his face to the wall, swallowed in secret the noxious 

 draught ; and he was a Polish Jew, his dress betrayed him. In 

 this manner the doctor watched the ever-varying modifications of 

 the human countenance as they were produced by the influence of 

 one and the same agent ; and from these observations, constituting 

 clear principles, he arrived at the conclusion that men are but over- 

 grown babies. 



Without exception, every one of the Carlsbad thermal springs 

 deposits a large quantity of calcareous matter, which forms stalac- 

 titious concretions ; and as these depositions take place abundantly 

 before the very eyes of those who attend daily to drink the water, 

 many of them have been deterred from continuing its use, under an 

 apprehension that similar incrustations might take place in tlie 

 bowels or on the teeth. Dr. G., however, shows that this preju- 

 dice has often been combated by superior reasoning ; and he adds 

 the reason which satisfied himself that, from drinking at the ther- 

 mal sources of Carlsbad, none need be apprehensive of having an 

 intestinal concretion. 



Dr. Granville wisely takes Professor Ehrenbcrg, of Berlin, for 



