But The Inhabitants
Are Either Destitute Of Public Spirit, Or Cannot Afford The
Expense.
[General Paterson delivered a Plan to the King of
Sardinia for supplying Nice with excellent water for so small
An
expence as one livre a house per annum; but the inhabitants
remonstrated against it as an intolerable Imposition.] I have a
draw-well in my porch, and another in my garden, which supply
tolerable water for culinary uses; but what we drink, is fetched
from a well belonging to a convent of Dominicans in this
neighbourhood. Our linnen is washed in the river Paglion; and
when that is dry, in the brook called Limpia, which runs into the
harbour.
In mentioning the water of this neighbourhood, I ought not to
omit the baths of Rocabiliare, a small town among the mountains,
about five and twenty miles from Nice. There are three sources,
each warmer than the other; the warmest being nearly equal to the
heat of the king's bath at Bath in Somersetshire, as far as I can
judge from information. I have perused a Latin manuscript, which
treats of these baths at Rocabiliare, written by the duke of
Savoy's first physician about sixty years ago. He talks much of
the sulphur and the nitre which they contain; but I apprehend
their efficacy is owing to the same volatile vitriolic principle,
which characterises the waters at Bath. They are attenuating and
deobstruent, consequently of service in disorders arising from a
languid circulation, a viscidity of the juices, a lax fibre, and
obstructed viscera.
Enter page number
PreviousNext
Page 334 of 535
Words from 89519 to 89775
of 143308
