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venth, the bath of the Holy-cross, about two fathoms square, chiefly for the 

 clergy. The eighth, St. Peter's bath, greener than the rest. The ninth, the 

 Sour bath, set about with stone balistres, and covered with a handsome cupola 

 and lanthorn. The water is very clear. In the steam of this bath I have 

 often coloured money black without touching the water ; and staying only in 

 the room where the bath is, the buttons of my clothes and what else of silver 

 the vapour could come at, were coloured yellow or gilded ; and yet the water 

 itself, once cold, changes not the colour of metals, though boiled in it. The 

 hottest of these baths have not the heat of the Queen's bath at Bath in Eng- 

 land. They use no guides, as with us, but direct themselves with a short 

 turned staff. 



Manners-doriF, seated under a hill on the east side of the river Leyta, has 

 only one bath. It rises under a church, built over the spring head. The 

 water of it is lukewarm, and therefore they boil it in great coppers, when 

 they desire it hotter, and bathe in tubs filled with this boiled water. From 

 the substance which sticks to the coppers in boiling, it appears that it is im- 

 pregnated with sulphur, saltpetre and chalk.* This water colours the stones in 

 it of a fair green, like a turcoise ; and the steam of it, which sticks to the moss 

 under the church, turns into drops of gold or amber colour. 



Dotis, two Hungarian miles from Comora in Hungary, famous for being 

 watered with great numbers of springs, has also sulphureous baths, said to be 

 warm in winter. I was there in March and October, and both times found 

 their warmth scarcely perceivable. In colour they are bluish and to taste acid. 

 The Queen's bath and the great bath rise in a marsh, northward of the castle. 

 There is another bath in the governor's garden, within the town. They are 

 used as those of Manners-dorfF, by being boiled, and poured into bathing tubs. 



At Banka, two Hungarian miles from Freistat, in a meadow, I took notice 

 of 15 baths : and there have been more, but the river Waag wears away the 

 banks and swallows up the baths, and it has also broke into three of these 15. 

 The water of these is like to that of Baden in Austria : it leaves a white sedi- 

 ment on the moss and places it washes, and tinctures the metals black ; which 

 I experimented by putting money into it ; and sticking some into the ground 

 over which the water passes, that part which was in the ground retained its 

 own colour, and the other part in the bath-water acquired a coal black. These 

 baths are open and very hot. 



The baths of Boinitz, nigh the river Nitra, in Hungary, are of a moderate 

 gentle heat, delightful to bathe in, much beautified by Count Palfi Palatine of 

 Hungary : and all of them covered under one large roof. The first is the no- 



* This account of the ingredients of this mineral water is not to be relied on. 



