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bleman's bath, built of stone, descended into on all sides by stone stairs. Four 

 more are of wood, but very handsomely and well built. 



At Stuben, three Hungarian miles from Newsol, and two from Chremnitz, 

 near a rivulet, are some baths of great esteem, and much frequented. The 

 water is clear, and smells of sulphur, the sediment green. It colours the wood 

 over it green and black, but does not change the colour of metals so soon as 

 most others. I left money in it a whole night, which was yet but faintly co- 

 loured. The springs rise underneath, and pass through the holes in the floor- 

 ing of the baths. The heat is the same as the King's bath in England. These 

 baths are seven. The first is the nobleman's bath. The second the gentle- 

 man's. The third the countryman's. The fourth the countrywoman's. The 

 fifth the beggars' bath. The sixth for such as are infected with the lues 

 venerea. The seventh, the bath of the gypsies, of whom there are many in 

 those parts. These baths are in a plain, encompassed on all sides with hills. 



Glas-Hitten, an Hungarian mile, or about seven English miles from Schem- 

 nitz, has five baths ; two of which are large. It deposes a red sediment, and 

 incrustates the wood and seats of the bath under water with a stony substance ; 

 and it gilds silver. But the most remarkable of these baths is that which is 

 called the sweating bath, whose hot springs drain through a hill, and fall into 

 a bath built to receive them ; at one end of which, by ascending I went into a 

 cave, which is made a noble stove by the heat of these thermae, and so ordered 

 with seats that every one who sits in it, either by chusing a higher or lower 

 seat, may regulate his sweating, or enjoy what degree of heat he pleases. This 

 cave and the sides of the bath also, are covered by the continual dropping of 

 these hot springs with a red, white and green substance : the red and green 

 make the best show, but the white is used against the stone, and cures ulcers 

 and sore backs of horses. 



Eisenbach, about four English miles from Glas-Hitten, and five or six from 

 Schemnitz, has also hot baths. I have seen great trees placed at the top or 

 superficies of the water in the bath, which have suffered petrifaction. Here 

 are two convenient baths much frequented ; and a third, which is made by the 

 water let out of the former, called the snakes' bath, from the number of snakes 

 coming into and delighting in it, when it is filled with these warm waters. 



The natural baths of Buda are esteemed the noblest of Europe, not only in 

 respect of the large and hot springs, but of the magnificence of their buildings 

 also. For the Turks bathe very much, and though little curious in most of their 

 private houses, yet are they very sumptuous in their public buildings, as their 

 chans or caravansaras, mosques, bridges and baths declare. Here are eighit 

 baths. The first is a large open bath, at the foot of a high rocky hill, formerly 



