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Invalids coming: from Prague were formerly ob- 

 liged to descend the mountain, at the foot of which 

 the town and its springs lay, by roads fiter for goats 

 and woodsmen, than for heavy carriages. During 

 one of the most calamitous periods of his reign, from 

 1804 to 1806, the late emperor had a magnificent ser- 

 pentine Chaussee constructed, at the expenses of 160,000 

 silver florins, by which the town is approached with 

 so much ease , and offering so delightful a prospect, 

 that visitors have been known to say, the pleasant sen- 

 sation this causes was sufficient alone to come here. 

 For lighter carriages, a shorter cut of a road, called 

 the Tappenhof- Chamsee, leads more directly down 

 the hill, and is far easier than the Prague street 

 (Prager Gasse). From the Egra side the roads, 

 formerly very bad , are now excellent and flat. A 

 statement of what has been done for the improvement 

 of roads in all directions, in order to establish better 

 and shorter communications between the different 

 watering-places of Bohemia, and for the improve- 

 ment of Carlsbad, only since the beginning of the 

 present Grand- Bo urgrave (governor of the kingdom) 

 count Charles Chotek's administration , viz. since 

 1827, is to be seen in my Almanack for 1833, 

 ch. XII and XIII. The great improvements of roads 

 have facilitated the establishment of Stage and Mail- 

 couches, under the name of Eilwdgen (velociferes). 

 For those who, by motives of health, are obliged to 

 travel slowly (a petites journees), veturinis fLand- 

 kutscher) are every where to be had. From Prague 



