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and greater publicity, to make them popular. The number is 

 more than four hundred, many of which have undergone 

 analytical process by physicians. There is scarcely a comitat 

 that has not several, and it is only in the vast arid or marshy 

 plains that we are not to look for them. Such as are bitter, 

 alkaline, and nitrous, are, occasionally, prescribed by phy- 

 sicians.* 



Croatia and Sclavonia have, likewise, a great number of 

 'mineral waters, and there are others in the Banat, particularly 

 the ancient baths of Mehadia, commonly called the baths of 

 Hercules, They are found also in Transylvania, and on the 

 frontiers of Hungary. From the abundance of its mineral 

 springs, the names Teplitza, Teplica, Tepla, Tapolcza, signify- 

 ing hot baths, occur frequently on the maps of Hungary. 

 These waters all issue immediately from calcareous mountains, 

 or from sand and pulverised remnants at their feet. They 

 often contain a great quantity of carbonate of lime, which they 

 deposit all along in their passage, and which, in different places, 

 forms considerable masses of calcareous tuft. 



PART I. 



CHAPTER I. 



JOURNEY FROM PARIS TO VIENNA. 



IT is not without a secret pleasure, that the philosophical 

 student quits the narrow precincts of towns in quest of tracts 

 wherein a cultivated country is covered with beautiful verdure, 

 or wherein nature, left to itself, appears in all its riches and 

 magnificence. The hope of collecting new facts, in the history 

 of art, or of tracing general laws, by fresh observations, out of 

 those already discov red, gives an impulse to the imagination, 

 so as to excite fresh efforts to redouble his courage, vigour, 

 and perseverance. 



* The parts of Hungary that most abound in mineral waters, are the comitats 

 of Zips, Saros, Abanj, Lipto, Arva, Trentsen, Tliurotz, Zolyom, Bars, Hont, 

 Nograd, Heves, CEdenburg, Eisenburg, and Szala. 



