BARÈGES, a small town situated between two mountain chains in the department of Hautes Pyrénées in France, celebrated for its warm sulphurous springs. Their temperature varies from 24^{\circ} to 36^{\circ} Reaumur. Upwards of a thousand visitors annually repair to the baths, most of them military men, the benefit of the waters being granted to the army at the expense of government. Their chief value is in cutaneous diseases.