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214 Late in the afternoon, after a very difficult and fatiguing journey of twenty-five or thirty versts, we rode two or three thousand feet down a slippery, break-neck descent into the

deep valley of the Rakmánofski hot springs, where, shut in by high mountains and framed in greenery and flowers, we found a beautiful alpine lake. The medicinal properties of