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 of those innumerable invalids, who weigh and calculate what they eat, and even for those who like, several dishes, but little of each, half-portions are to be had in many eating-houses.

The citizens of Carlsbad are in general civil and obliging, and strangers, travelling without servants, find in every house the necessary attendance. They are industrious; all sorts of workmen and tradespeople are found amongst them, and they have even acquired some renown in the fabrication of fire-arms, cabinet-work, cutlery and pins; the incrustations produced by the fixed parts of the waters, called Sprudel-stones, are an object of industry. A number of tradesmen of all sorts come, during the season, from Prague and Vienna; bohemian glasses, hyaliths, the pewter-ware of Schlaggenwald, fill very beautiful shops, and all the china and fine potter’s-ware manufactures of the kingdom are near Carlsbad.

The china or earthen cups, used by the water-drinkers, vary in beauty and price, but are of the same size, viz., about six ounces. Dials, with moveable hands, assist the memory of those who drink a great number of goblets.

Carlsbad has its magistracy, presided by a burgomaster; but, during the season, the Government of Prague delegates a commissary for the Inspection of the place, to whom strangers must apply about passports, in any contest that may arise between them and the inhabitants, in short, in every case where the assistance and decision of justice are requested.