A short description of Pyrmont : with observations on the use of its waters / abridged from the German 'Description of Pyrmont of Dr. Marcard' ; revised by the author.

  • Marcard, Heinrich Matthias, 1747-1817.
Date:
1788
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Credit: A short description of Pyrmont : with observations on the use of its waters / abridged from the German 'Description of Pyrmont of Dr. Marcard' ; revised by the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I » ]; were * defeated by Germanicus on the other fide of the Wefer, but he himfelf efcaped. There are fome other ruins in the environs of Pyrmont, and one in particular called Shell Pyrmont, an antient iefidence of its Counts.. It was built in 1183, and has been deferted upwards of 400 years, but as thefe are fubjefts worthy of a more ample defcription, they cannot have juftice done them without exceeding the limits of this pamphlet. Among the natural curiofities, after the mineral waters, nothing is more remarkable than a vaporous cavern, about a quarter of a mile from the wells, through which iffues forth fuch a quantity of fixed air from the bowels of the earth, as to require caution in its approach. It is unqueftionably fimilar in its nature to the Grotta del Cane at Naples, but fo fuperior in its effedts, as hardly to ad¬ mit of a comparifon. In the one, the va¬ pours confine themfelves to the height of two feet; but in the other, they rife, in dry and Calm weather, and frequently on the eve of a ftorm, to that of fifteen feet, and fo power¬ fully.