Note 72 — (Second Pilgrimage.) (continued 3)

“Le celebre Carus a publié une tres-interessant Memoire sur les Eaux Minerales, sur leur vitalité, sur leur formation dans le sein de la terre, qu’il considere comme un organism animé, dont ces eaux sont les secretions, aussi differentes entre elles que les fluides elaborés par les divers organs secretoires du corps humain.”—De Carro.

It must be confessed that the idea of daily ingurgitating such lots of secretions from some “great unknown” animal in the bowels of the earth, is not a very comfortable one, and requires a stouter stomach than that which is necessary for the digestion of the bear’s broth at Wisbaden. There is one consolation, that the whole is a dream; since there is just as much proof or probability of the Spas of Germany being a secretion from a living animal, as that the German Ocean is a secretion from Neptune or Amphitrite.