168 SPRINGS, RIVERS, CANALS, LAKES, 



citadel of Pyrmont is fortified with a broad dilch, and high ram- 

 parts : it has also subterraneous passages. From the ditch of the 

 citadel a canal has been carried quite down to the spring, where is 

 a mineral fountain, which rises about twenty feet high. A little 

 above is a house in whicji an assembly is held, and near it is the 



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house that encloses the spring: about forty feet distance from this 

 fountain-head rises, with a considerable noise, the great bubbling 

 spring, which is used for bathing; and at a hundred and twelve 

 feet distant, to the west, issues the lower spring, which is much 

 weaker. These springs are frequently resorted to by persons ef 

 distinction, in order to drink the waters in the highest perfection. 

 Frederick III. of Prussia once visited them for that purpose. 



At BUDA, in HUNGARY, in the suburbs of Wasserstadt and 

 Reisenstadt, are five warm baths, the principal of which, called the 

 Emperor's, is built somewhat in the manner of the Rotunda at 

 Rome, with a large aperture in the centre of the dome, beside 

 several small holes or windows round the cupola, for admitting 

 more light. In a large bath, in the centre of the other lour, both 

 sexes publicly bathe together, the men wearing only a kind of 

 drawers, and the women what they term a fore shift, but the com- 

 mon people, for whom one of the other baths is appointed, look 

 upon even this slight covering as superfluous. There is also a pond 

 of mineral water, which has this surprising property, that when the 

 water is wholly turned off, the water-springs cease flowing ; but 

 when the pond is a little above half full, they return again. 



The SELTZER waters are procured from a spring which, without 

 flowing, rises in a well, near the town of Needer Seltzer, in the 

 bishopric of Treves, in the circle of the Lower Rhine. It has a 

 brisk acidulous taste when taken up from the fountain, but loses it 

 on being exposed to the air in an open vessel. These waters operate 

 chiefly as diuretics ; they are also powerful antiseptics, and give a 

 gentle stimulus to the nerves: they allay heat and thirst, and Lave 

 been much prescribed in scorbutic, phthisical, and nervous cases ; 

 in gouty cases they are likewise drunk, from a pint, to two or three 

 more, in a day. 



Of the mineral springs in FRANCE, it will be sufficient to men- 

 tion two or three. 



The waters of LA MOTHE, in that part of France which until 

 lately was named Dauphine, are highly esteemed ai a remedy against 



