or Borsett, celebrated for its baths, a place about half a league from Aix-la-Chapelle in Germany. The abbey here is a very magnificent pile of building. It was formerly a monastery; but serves for a nunnery, whose abbess is a princess of the empire, and lady of Borset. The waters are warm, and of the nature of those of Aix-la-Chapelle; but they are only used as baths for the diseases in which the waters last mentioned are recommended, and also in dropsical and catarrhal cases. The waters are distinguished into the upper and lower springs. The former were found by Dr Simmons to raise the thermometer to 158°, the latter to only 127°. All the baths are supplied by the first. Dr Simmons observed that these waters were much less sulphureous than those of Aix-la-Chapelle, probably on account of their greater heat. He likewise found that they abounded much with selenites, which incrust the pipe through which the water passes, and likewise the sides of the bath.