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quality, yet, as one is much warmer, it is thought 
likewife to be more efficacious than the other. The 
former of thefe, called the Brudel, rifes very near 
the bed of the fmall river Tepel, which runs thro’ 
the middle of the town, and is fometimes overflowed 
by it. The water iffiies with great force from the 
bottom of this fpring, riling in a conliderable body 
to the height of fix feet perpendicular ; and would 
force itfelf much higher, if it were confined within, 
a narrower compafs. The fpring is inclofed with 
a fquare wall, within which are fixed three wooden 
pipes, which convey the water from the bottom of 
the fpring into a refervoir ; which diftributes it into 
a number of fmall troughs, communicating with the 
feveral bathing-houfes, which are built on both Tides 
of the river for the ufe of the patients. This fpring 
is fo impetuous, that they are obliged to pave and 
ramm the bed of the river, left it fhould force itfelf 
up in the channel : and I obferved one place on the 
river fide, where it had burft thro’’ the rock ; and 
they had been obliged to coniine it, by fattening 
down a large ftone on the orifice. 
The water of this fpring is fo hot, that you 
cannot bear your hand in it ; and the inhabitants 
make ufe of it for fcalding their pigs and their 
poultry. 
The water, when put into a glafs, has a bluifti 
caft, not unlike that of an opal and tho’ I could 
not difcover, that in 24 hours it had depofited the 
leaft fediment, yet there was a thin whitilh fcum 
collected on the furface ; and I obferved the fame in 
the baths, where it was much thicker and was of 
the colour, and almoft of the confiftence, of a wafer. 
It 
