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lateral pipes to the Sprudel - baths , to the evapora- 

 ting salt -apparatus, and to the river flowing near it. 

 The height of the springs can be more or less in- 

 creased, according to the breadth and length of the 

 square wooden pipe, through which the water ascends 5 

 but it remains nevertheless a springing fountain, even 

 when left in a state of nature, deprived of its out- 

 ward constructions. A peristyle, a long colonade, 

 the elegant hall of the bath-house, a flower-garden, 

 with a good band of music , offer to innumerable 

 drinkers an agreable walk, during the whole season, 

 whatever may be the weather. 



The Muhlbrunn (45 R. or 135 F.), the Neubrunn 

 (50 R. or 147 F.) and the Theresienbrunn (43 R. 

 or 132 F.) on the left side of the Teple, communicate 

 together, and are decorated with elegant buildings, 

 colonades and gardens. The Schlossbrunn (40 R. 

 or 122 F/) is much less frequented, on account of 

 its high situation. The cavernous Bernards brunn is 

 scarcely accessible to drinkers , but its abundant 

 water, nearly as hot as the Sprudel, is led into a 

 reservoir, necessary for cooling the Muhlbrunn -baths. 

 Some ophthalmic patients use its vapour at random 

 without medical advice. Aware of the dangerous 

 consequences of such an empirical application, I sug- 

 gested to an eminent oculist, Dr. Ryba, of Prague, 

 the necessity of reducing to rational principles the 

 indications and counter-indications, according to which 

 that vapour may bo beneficial or hurtful (^Almanack 

 de Carlsbad, 1834, ch. VIII). 



