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1855
¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea
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Page 324 of 598
Place: London
Publisher: Murray
Physical description: XII, 573 S. : Kt.. - 7. ed., corr. and enlarged
Language: Englisch
Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany
Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer
Location mark: I 124.216
Intern ID: 37775
clog or shoe cannot be procured at Bormio or at Sta. Maria, and there fore the traveller in his own carriage should bring one with him. About 1-2 m. above Bormio, close to the road, is the Hotel of the Baths of Bormio , supplied by hot saline sulphu reous springs, having a temperature of 28° and 38 '' Reaumur, containing GO apartments and 12 marble baths, afford ing much better accommodation than the inns at Bormio; good sparkling- vino d’Asti is to be had at the baths. They are frequented in July

and Aug,, but by the end of Sept, most of the guests are flown, and the hotel is then closed. The baths are supplied through wooden pipes from the springs which rise near the old bathing-house. This stands below the road, on the ]., on the summit of a rock overlooking the Adda. Nearly abreast of this old bath the road crosses a bridge over a deep chasm, and traverses the lsi gallery, called dei Bagni: an obelisk of rock 40 ft, high is left standing beside it. The view looking back over the Val

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