Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: wards of two hundred years; but, in 1716, came into more general use, as a means for the treat-‘ ment of disease, at which period also the baths were put into better order. It has been analysed by M. Lafontaine, a chemist of Liege, and contains a small quantity of carbonic acid, with about two and half grains of saline substance?principally muriate of soda and carbonate of lime?to the pint. Its temperature is between 26 and 27 Reaumur, being somewhat lower than that of Wildbad A course of these baths may be recommended in several cases where a mildly sedative effect is required. In some cases, the internal use of the Spa water may be advantageously combined with the bathing. A little beyond Chaude Fontaine is Pepinstere station, where a pleasant drive of an hour, brings the tourist to This town is situated one thousand feet above the level of the sea, is an agreeable valley of the Ardennes, at the foot of and between two projecting masses of a steep hill forming an amphitheatre, by which the greater part of it is sheltered from the north and east. It is ten leagues from Aix-la- Chapelle, about an equal distance from Liege, and three leagues from Chaude Fontaine. The walks and rides in the environs, and about the hills, are beautiful and varied; the most usual point of re- union is the promenade de sept heures, which, however, of late years, has presented rather a deserted appearance; the tide of fashion having flowed in other directions; and since the Belgian revolution the place has been abandoned by its Dutch visitors, who used to resort thither in large numbers Last year Spa was very full, owing to the disturbed state of France and Germany. Spa, notwithstanding, does not lack resources for amusement. There are a theatre, handsome public rooms for balls, concerts, and gam…
