Volume 173701

Les amusemens de Spa: or the gallantries of the Spaw in Germany. Containing the nature of the several springs, with their singular virtues and uses ... / Translated from the original French [by H. de Veil] [Anon].

  • Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von, 1692-1775
Date:
1737
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Credit: Les amusemens de Spa: or the gallantries of the Spaw in Germany. Containing the nature of the several springs, with their singular virtues and uses ... / Translated from the original French [by H. de Veil] [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C3] | of either Sex, with whom I enjoy’d a charming Familiarity. We became immediately acquainted and convers’d together, during the Seafon, with as much Franknefs and Affection, as if we had been attach’d for Life. ‘Thefe Perfons were equally confiderable for their Birth and Merit : Pleafure only and Recreation had entic’d ‘em to Spa: And as my Journey thither was with the fame Intent, we ftudied to make the Regimen of the Waters as agreeable to us as poflible. We feemed to have been created for one another. The Sympathy of our Tempers, and the Corref. pondence of our Characters, had eftablifh’d a- mong us that Opennefs of Heart which endears Society : So that we found a thoufand Sweets in an Intercourfe of mutual Confidence, and the re- ciprocal Communication of our Adventures. As all the Pleafures at Spa depend on thefe Intima- cies, every one takes Care to adapt his Compan to his Tafte ; and this Liberty of aflociating as Inclination direéts, perhaps attraéts more Company to Spa, than the Virtue of it’s Wa- ters. Bi °Tis true, the Roads thither promife nothing very delightful. In travelling to Spa, either by Liege, or by 4ix-la-Chapelle, which are not above fix or feven Leagues from it, the Way lies chiefly through uncultivated Defarts, and thof al moft rocky. There are nothing burt Mountains on every Side, which fucceed one another, and over which Travellers have made fome imperfect Trae ces of a Road: The Rains and the ‘T'empefts, which are frequent there, even make the Paflage fometimes dangerous, by rolling down great Stones from the Precipices. The Coachmen of the Country are themfelves often at a Lofs, be- caufe the Tracts are defaced between Seafon and - B 2 Seafon;