CHAUDES AIGUES, an old rustic-looking town of France, with about 1500 inhabitants, in the department of Cantal, arrondissement and 17 miles S.S.W. of St. Flour. It is celebrated for hot mineral springs, varying in tempera-
Chaumonture from 135° to 177° Fahr.; and extensively used for baths, washing wool, and warming the houses of the town.