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.„ |