AND CENTRAL FRANCE.               Tours.—Printed by A. Mame and Co.               The maladies to which they are applicable, and their effects upon the constitution. To which is added an appendix containing a variety of useful information to THE TOURIST BY...

TOURS, A. AIGRE, rue Royale. Messrs. CALIGNANIS, No 18, rue Vivienne, Paris ; Henry RENSHAW, No 356, Strand, London ; And all other Booksellers. 1842 TO LAWSON CAPE, M. D. Lecturer at Saint-Thomas's Hospital THIS SMALL VOLUME IS INSCRIBED As a slight testimony of friendship and esteem BY THE AUTHOR. The author of the present little volume in offering it to the public is sensible how crude and imperfect is its form. The haste with which from unavoidable circumstances, it has been composed and the

AND CENTRAL FRANCE. Although there is little that can be denominated bold, or strikingly romantic, in the general aspect of the country around Tours, it nevertheless, possesses charms of a peculiar and novel nature, alike calculated to gratify a lover of the picturesque, tranquillize the mind, and renovate the enfeebled energies of the valetudinarian. Hence it has long been famed as a favourite resort, more especially, of these classes of British Tourists, etc.; many adopting it as a temporary p

OF Plombiers , a small town in the department of Vosges, twenty-four leagues from Nancy, is situated between mountains in a deep narrow valley watered by the Augrome. According to a careful analysis made by M. Vauquelin, these waters contain Subcarbonate of Soda, Sulphate of Soda, Chloride of Sodium, Subcarbonate of Lime, and Silex. He affirms that they also contain an animal matter greatly resembling gelatine, which performs an important part in their action upon the animal economy; to this ing