r bubbles continually ascend with the water, and break as they
reach the surface. The waters are found on analysis to contain carbonic
acid, and muriate of Soda, in excess; a very small quantity of sulphate
and muriate of lime, and muriate of Barytes. The sediment of the general
receptacle contains some sulphur and Iron.

The Bagnoles waters are at once tonic and purgative; they excite the
appetite, giving more activity to the digestive system, and have a
general tendency favourable to the promotion of healthy secretions and
excretions; particularly of the skin kidneys and glandular organs
generally.

Administered as Baths, they have a very salutary action upon the skin,
imparting to it a remarkable flexibility and softness.

M. Piette, who was forty years physician to this establishment,
published a report upon the efficacy of these waters, in obstinate
rheumatism, chronic catarrh, paralysis, chlorosis, leucorrhoea,
chronic gastritis, etc. After enumerating their other virtues he says:
"On lit dans les vieilles chroniques que les dames de la Normandie
allaient autrefois a Bagnoles pour porter remede a leur sterilite."

From three to six glasses constitute a dose of the waters, they are
taken in the morning.

The Bath rooms and appendages are judiciously arranged; when the natural
heat of the water--(from 82 deg. to 90 deg. Fah.) is deemed insufficient by the
physician, it can easily be increased by the aid of artificial heat,
without materially deteriorating the medicinal virtues of the water.

Many Spa Doctors however assert (Dr Granville amongst the number)
"that the _caloric_ of mineral waters is of a _specific_ kind, analogous
to the heat of the body." A heat incorporated with the water by a
chemico-vital process. And as no external warmth can supply the body
with _vital_ heat, so no artificially created temperature can be a real
substitute for the natural heat of thermal springs.

The temperature of the water of Bagnoles being about that of the
blood--98 deg. Fah. immersion in it produces but a slight sensation of heat;
the temperature of our bodies being below that of our blood. The
sensation is that of comfort.

Bagnoles is sixty leagues from Paris, and one league from the high road
leading from Alencon to Domfront, lying nearly on the route from Havre
to Tours.

CHAUDES-AIGUES.

This is a small town in the department of Cantal, six leagues from
Saint-Flour, on the road between Clermont and Toulous