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IV. An Account of the Carllbad Mineral 
TV aters in Bohemia : In a Letter to the 
Right Honourable the Earl of Macclef- 
field, Prefident of the R. S, by the Rev . 
Jeremiah Milles, £). D. F. R. S. 
My Lord, 
Read Jan. 20, TV /T R. Watfon having favoured the 
JL V A Society with an Account of Dr. 
Sprengsfeld’s treatife on the Carllbad waters, I have 
taken the liberty to fhbmit to your Lordfhip fome 
oblervations on the fame fubjedt, which I made 
during my ftay in that place ; together with fome 
fpecimens of different forts of incruftations, which 
are formed by thole waters. 
Carllbad is a fmall town, fltuated on the confines 
of Bohemia, at the diftance of 14 German, or 28 
French, leagues weft of Prague. It is remarkable for 
its warm mineral fprings, which are faid to have 
been accidentally diicovered, in the year 1370, by the 
Emperor Charles the IVth, as he was hunting ; from 
whom they received their prefent name of Carllbad, 
or Charles’s bath. Thefe waters foon growing into 
repute, occalioned the building of a fmall neat town, 
conlifting chiefly of houfes calculated for the accom- 
modation of the company, who frequent this place 
in the fummer time. There are two warm fprings, 
which rife in the middle of the town, very near each 
other : and tho’ they are fuppofed to be of the lame 
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