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MINERAL WATERS OF CARLSBAD.
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parties (27,661 persons), and the reputation of the great curative powers of its waters has become known throughout the whole of the civilised world. Carlsbad is often called the Queen of Watering-places,—a name which it highly deserves, on account of its size, the number of its visitors, the beauty and variety of its environs, but chiefly on account of the restorative qualities of its waters, and the imposing spectacle of its hot Sprudel.

Yearly Number of Parties from 5 Years to 5 Years.
1756 . . . 134 parties. 1760 . . . 162 parties.
1765 . . . 274 parties. 1770 . . . 322 parties.
1775 . . . 294 parties. 1780 . . . 225 parties.
1785 . . . 445 parties. 1790 . . . 368 parties.
1795 . . . 638 parties. 1800 . . . 744 parties.
1805 . . . 725 parties. 1810 . . . 1255 parties.
1815 . . . 1302 parties. 1820 . . . 1461 parties.
1825 . . . 1660 parties. 1830 . . . 2448 parties.
1835 . . . 2737 parties. 1840 . . . 2882 parties.
1845 . . . 3245 parties. 1850 . . . 4227 parties.
1855 . . . 4712 parties. 1860 . . . 6366 parties.
1865 . . . 7969 parties. 1870 . . . 9729 parties.
1875 . . . 15642 parties. 1880 . . . 19502 parties.

II.—THE WARM MINERAL WATERS.

1. Names of the Springs mostly used, and their Temperature.

1. The Sprudel has a temperature of about 58° Fahr.
2. The SprudelBernhardsbrunn has a temperature of about 50° Fahr.