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Rh hrivelled limb its former plumpnes. This water is, in fact, the genuine oil of beauty, more effectual than eence of roes, Olympian dew, or the wah of Madame de la Pompadour. The wonder-working tream glides along in ilence, under the hade of vile and uneemly brambles; after watering their roots, it hides itelf in the maternal boom of the earth, as if in digut that its powers hould be overlooked; while its neighbour at Carlbad bubbles up with patrician noie and impatience, announces its entrance into the world by hot lixivial fumes, and hears its praies from the mouth of the whole gouty world. Doubtles were the latent virtues of the mountain pring, whether in perpetuating the hort-lived bleing of female beauty, or retoring its bloom when faded, properly advertied, all Chritendom, to the no mall emolument of the good town of Zwikow, would pour forth its maids and matrons, in the form of pil-