Tarasp and its mineral waters / from the French of Dr. Killias ; compiled and edited by N. B. Whitby.

  • Eduard Killias
Date:
1870
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Credit: Tarasp and its mineral waters / from the French of Dr. Killias ; compiled and edited by N. B. Whitby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    The springs of Tarasp-Schuls rise in the lower part of the Engadine, that long Rhaetian valley, which, in length about 60 miles, forms the South-Eastern frontier of Switzerland, on the side of the Valteline and the Tyrol. Dr. Papon, in his account of the Engadine, pub- lished io years ago, describes it as “ an un- known Alpine Country,” but this term can no longer be applied, as for several years the En- gadine, owing to its grand mountain scenery and to the considerable numbers of visitors of the Baths of St. Moritz and Tarasp, has at- tained a rapidly increasing celebrity. The villages of Schuls and Tarasp, on the territory of which our springs rise, are half a day’s journey from St. Moritz and 9 miles from the Austrian frontier near Martinsbruck; their elevation above the sea is from 4000 to 4500 feet. The aspect of this valley is of a less severe character than that of the Upper Engadine; mountain peaks of majestic formation surround a valley which widens in a circular form through which flows the impetuous Inn ; the vegetation exhibits a greater richness and variety of form than in the upper valley : the extensive culti- vation of rye and flax, the orchards near Schuls, A
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