58 WARM SPRINGS. 



bonate of soda, as their chief ingredient, are still 

 more rare. Aigues-Chaudes, in the Department 

 of Cantal in Prance, with a temperature"* of 

 87°'5C. (189°'5P.); Yichy, in the Department 

 of Allier, with one of 45° C. (113° P.); the 

 "Kaiserquelle" at Of en, of 61° C. (141°-8 P.) ; 

 Toplitz, in Bohemia, of 49°'4 C. (120°'92 I.) ; 

 Ems, of 56°-25C. (133°*25P.); Schlangenbad, 

 of 31°-25 C. (88°'25P.); Geilnau, of 10°-6 C. 

 (51°-8 P.) ; Pachingen, of 10° C. (50° P.), are 

 instances of alkaline springs. 



* The hot spring of Aigues-Chaudes yields daily 

 fifty thousand gallons of water. This is conducted in 

 winter through branching pipes into many houses in the 

 town, and serves as a source of warmth. According to the 

 reckoning of Berthier, it supplies the inhabitants with an 

 annual stock of heat equal to that yielded by the fuel of a 

 forest covering 1,335 acres. 



