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and its waters are bitter ; the second lies in a plain, and its water, 

 though intensely bitter, is an eflfectual purgative ; and who has not 

 become acquainted with the name of Seidlitz, through its gentle and 

 pleasing aperient salt? which, in fact, the Doctor says, has nothing 

 in common with the chemical component parts of the genuine Seidhtz 

 water of Bohemia, except the name. These three springs have the 

 temperature of 58°, F., at all seasons ; but no patient frequents them, 

 because the locality would be unfavourable for the estabhshment of 

 a watering-place. 



Toeplitz is a gayish place, and it occupies a situation partly on 

 the patrimony of the Prince de Clary, in the midst of a rich coun- 

 try smiling all around with Nature's bountiful gifts. Placed outside 

 the bath-houses, a monumental stone records the traditionary sto- 

 ry of the first discovery of its hot mineral springs. Here, as Dr. G. 

 gives it, it was not a stag or a dog falling into the scorching stream, 

 which by its (the stream's) cries called the attention of man to the 

 existence of a new blessing ; but they were pigs which, having fallen 

 into hot water before their time, proclaimed by their grunting the 

 existence of what has given Toeplitz a celebrity of eleven centuries, 

 and a seniority over every other mineral Spa of Germany. This 

 place has long been the venerable resort of the high-bom and the 

 humble, the hale and the unhealthy. The influx of invalids to its 

 springs is numerous and brilliant ; its baths, both private and pub- 

 lic, are excellent ; its comforts and embelhshments are worthy the 

 patronage of crowned heads ; and the living at Toeplitz is beyond 

 comparison. Dr. G. declares, cheaper than in any other watering- 

 place he had visited. Its waters are thermal, and the hottest of them 

 emerges from a crevice in a rock of porphyry. Their specific virtue 

 lies in their power of restoring the cripple to perfect motion and elas- 

 ticity. Altogether they are nearly as good for every useful purpose 

 as those of the Beulah Spa or the springs of Strathpeffer ; so 

 that for this and the other reasons it may be usefully frequented by 

 the " travelled invalid," for whose benefit Dr. G. consigns to his 

 pages the faithful and facetious observations wherewith he completes 

 his last " geographical group" but one, and the last is made up of the 



Bavarian and Nassau Spas, which are those of Liebenstein, Kis- 

 singen, Bocklett, Bruckenau, Hombourg, Soden, Seltzer, Geilnau 

 and Fachingen, Schlangenbad, Schwalbach, Wiesbaden, and Ems. 

 Dr. Granville's narrative of his pilgrimages to and around these re- 

 spectable places is, as usual, exceedingly varied and animated. Two 

 only of their Spas are thermal ; the rest have a low temperature, and 

 possess but a moderate impregnation of saline ingredients. They 

 produce effects on the persons who employ them, internally or ex- 

 ternally, not very much different from those caused by the same 

 kinds of mineral waters in France, England, and Italy, when simi- 

 larly used in diseases and circumstances not essentialh- dissimilar. 

 Altogether, his pictures of this last " geographical group" are as hap- 

 py and as graphic as those which impart their characteristic features 



