ENVIRONS OF WILDBAD.

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place every year, from (he acidulous springs of which her general health derived considerable henefit.

Although thc wells arc chicfly frequentcd by those who drink the waters only, both kinds of thcm are used also as baths. A new establishment for that purpose bas bcen erected, with some pretensions to architectural taste, and neatness. A small portico protects the entrance of the build- ing, in the interior of which there are, on the ground- floor, two ranges of batb-rooms, six in numbcr, on each side of a corridor, and on the principal floor an equal number of well furnished chambers. The cold and heated water of the wells is sent into the hathing-tuh of each room. These vessels are made of wood, and liave an cntire cover of the same material, with a place cut out for the liead of the bather. There arc other more ancient and less con- venient balhing-rooms in the village; but those mentioned here, — which, with some other improvements, are of a recent date, and are due to the munificence of the Sovereign of Wiirtemberg, are necessarily the best and most frequented.

The Spa itself is farmed out to the postmaster, who exports a large quantity of the water instone bottles, and sends it to every part of Wiirtemberg, wherc it is drunk like Seltzer, either alone or with wine. A great number of the poorcr classes of pcasants and villagers bring hitlier their earthen jugs, which they fill from the acidulous springs, sometimes to the number of forty or fifty. There is con­nected with the Post-house the usual appendagc of an hotel, having a large dining-room for a table d’höte, which is used also as a general assembly-rooin for the inmates of the hotel, who from their apurtments on either side of the house may, through covered galleries, get to the bath chambers before described.

A small garden, a promenade, and a conversation