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one of which is cooler tlian tlie otlicr. They are botli de- stined for the use of gentlemen, ladies being accommo- dated in their own batlis, witli the exception of tbe Für- stenbad. The -regulations existing in tliis respect will in future not be allnded to, otberwise tban by mentioning tbe cxtent of accommodation offered in each compartment. Tbe two sexcs besides are so strictly secluded from each other in the baths, that even the entrance from the corridors to the dressing-rooms is effected from different sides. The interior of the dressing-rooms also is subdivided into a series of dressing- closets, answering to the number of individuals admitted to the baths at the same time, so that, as tliis number is never cxceeded, and the closets are entirely screened from the principal room, evcry one may confidently enter the bath without any fear of being exposed to the intrusive gazc of strangers. The bath-rooms , it ought further to be remarked, are so spacious, that double the number of bathers, ad­mitted simultaneously, might conveniently be received in thcm, from which results, that every individual has, as it were, an atmospherc of bis own, in the water.— Sonic over-nice, over-scrupulous invalids, ccrtainly to tliese open baths liave preferred bathing in tubs, and have had such contrivances purposely constructed for their use, yet a bath of tliis kind cannot be called “a bath in the Wildbad,” but only “a bath in a tub of the Wildbad water.” If such in­valids wislied to batlie alone, they might have cliosen the separate closets for the purpose. The objeetion started against bathing in water in which other pcople bathe, has no force in Wildbad; for tlie batlier is not in a stagnant pool, but in a flowing river constantly supplied witli fresh water; and as to any person’s, labouring under cutaneous or disgusting diseases, being likely to mingle witli the general bathers, it is an occurrenee provided against by