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canthari, se-idlini, nosellini, etc. A celebrated Bohe- 

 mian historian, Balbin (^Miscell. Lib. I. c. 24), tells 

 us, in 1697, that the Carlsbad beakers did not con- 

 tain more than two ounces and a half of liquid. The 

 coffee-cup, of Saxon porcelain, kept in the National 

 Museum of Prague, out of which the Austrian em- 

 press Elisabeth, princess of Brunswic - Wolffenbiittel, 

 wife of Charles VI, drank our waters in 1721, con- 

 tains only four ounces and two drachms of liquid. 

 {Almanack , for 1831, ch. XXII). 



The season begins , with few exceptions , the 

 1st of May, and finishes with September. Our waters 

 acting not only upon the bowels and kidneys, but 

 promoting perspiration, and requiring of course warm 

 weather, June, July and August are always at Carls- 

 bad the fullest time of the season. Those who are 

 fond of a brilliant crowd, and not afraid of paying 

 higher prices for lodgings, should come from the 15th 

 of June to the 15th of August 5 but those to whom 

 a bustling life is rather an annoyance than a plea- 

 sure , should be here from the 1st of May to the 

 15th of June , or from the 15th of August to the 

 30th of September. Society, in the beginning and 

 towards the end of the season, being much less 

 numerous, invalids can enjoy the comforts of a quiet 

 life, and they meet with fewer opportunities to trans- 

 gress the laws of the cure , the length of which 

 varies from five to six weeks, and is even, according 

 to circumstances, continued still longer, sometimes 

 also interrupted by a pause or an excursion, and 



