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Travellers passing through Carlsbad are not inscribed in the Visitors List, and those who do not remain above five days, have no tax to pay. That tax (Cur-Tax) is four florins silver a head; children under fifteen years, as well as domestics, are free from it; children above fifteen, coming with their parents, pay the half-tax. That revenue is entirely devoted to useful establishments and embellishments.

Carlsbad, sixty german miles distant from Vienna, and sixteen from Prague, is situated in a deep and narrow valley, between granitic rocks, on both sides of the TepleTeplá [sic], which throws itself into a larger river, the Egra, very near the town. The houses are all built on the declivity of the hills, and on the banks of the TepleTeplá [sic]. Those hills, beautifully wooded, offer innumerable and well kept walks, the greatest variety of prospects, and an interesting field to lovers of geology and botany.

According to the last observations of the Rev. A. David, royal astronomer at Prague, Carlsbad lays 50° 13′ 38″ of latit., 30° 32′ 47″ long., and 182 fathoms above the level of the sea near Hamburgh.