_Gastein_ is a much frequented and very fashionable bath in the Austrian Salzkammergut, some twelve or thirteen hours’ drive from Salzburg. The height above sea-level is 3300 feet, and the temperature of the water varies from 96° Fahr. to 114° Fahr. _Bormio_, at the foot of the Stelvio Pass, on the southern slope of the Alps, has an altitude of over 4000 feet, and water of a temperature of 104° Fahr. _Wildbad_, in the Black Forest, has been for many years a favourite bath with the English. The elevation is 1300 feet, and the temperature of the water a little over 100° Fahr. _Wiesbaden_, the capital of Nassau, possesses both hot and cold springs. The former have a temperature of 160° Fahr., and contain a fair amount of chlorides. The town is beautifully situated among the Taunus Hills, and has an elevation of 300 feet above the sea-level. _Teplitz_, in Bohemia, is a fashionable bathing resort. The town is well ordered, and healthfully situated, being 600 feet above the sea-level, and supplied with natural thermal springs, having a temperature ranging from 78° Fahr. to 120° Fahr. _Schlangenbad_, among the Taunus Hills, is a quiet bathing-place, with a natural tepid water having a temperature ranging between 80° and 90° Fahr. The Schlangenbad water only contains 2-1/2 grains of solids to the pint, so that it may safely be regarded as an “indifferent” spring. Sir Francis Head, the author of the ‘Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau,’ visited Schlangenbad in 1836, and we feel constrained to make the following extract from his work, as typically illustrating the kind of belief which gathers round a natural spring:--