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HE ituation of the near Zwikow, in the mountains called, from the abundance of their ores,, is well known. The name is derived from a pool, entitled the, which is at preent nearly but not quite dried up. The water of this pool poees an efficacy unknown to the Pyrmont, Carlbad, Spa, or any other medicinal pring in Germany, or even to the king’s bath at Pia in Italy, or the wells to which the turtle-fed victims of Englih luxury repair, in the vain hope of making a haking hand teady, or retoring to a