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addition of one small branch, it forms the river Colinas, which has a 

 meandering course of upwards of thirty leagues, and feeds the lake 

 of Pudaguel. Adjoining to the baths are three long ranges of build- 

 ings, each containing ten or twelve apartments, and a general veranda 

 along the front of the whole ; and these furnish the accommodation 

 for the bathers who frequent Colinas in the summer, that is, from 

 November till June. The waters are considered good for rheuma- 

 tism, jaundice, scrofula, and all cutaneous diseases. One range of 

 buildings is for the accommodation of the poorer sort, and there 

 the rooms are about six feet by seven ; and into each a whole family 

 will creep ; having first built a shed for a kitchen in some contiguous 

 spot. The rich are accommodated in the same manner, only that 

 their rooms are larger, some of them being fifteen feet square. But 

 while at Colinas, people live chiefly out of doors ; for then the 

 mountain side is beautiful with flowers, and the woods are dry and 

 shady. The little chapel occupies the prettiest spot in the valley ; 

 but now it is shut up, neither priest nor parishioner being tempted 

 to winter here among the snow and barrenness. So in the first week 

 in June or earlier, the patients withdraw, the doors are shut up, 

 the priest takes the key of his chapel, and all is left in solitude. 



