the district of, in Swiferland, has three cities, Baden, Keifers Stoul, and Klingnau, besides a town that passes for a city, named Zurzach. It is one of the finest countries in Swiferland; and is watered with three navigable rivers, the Limmet, Ruis, and Are. The land is fertile in corn and fruit, and there are places on the sides of the Limmet which produce wine. It maintains a communication between the cantons of Zurich and Bern, being seated between their north extremities. It extends on one side to the Are, as far as the place where it falls into the Rhine, and on the other side beyond the Rhine, where there are some villages which depend thereon. Most of the inhabitants are Papists. By the treaty of peace at the conclusion of the war which broke out in 1712 between the Protestant and Popish cantons, this country was yielded to the Protestant cantons of Zurich and Bern. Before, it was the property of the eight old cantons; however, as the canton of Glaris had taken no part in this war, by the consent of both parties its right was still continued.

the capital of the above district, is an agreeable city, moderately large, seated on the side of the Limmet, in a plain flanked by two high hills, between which the river runs. This city owes its rise to its baths, which were famous before the Christian era. Several monuments of antiquity have been found here from time to time, particularly in 1240. When they were opening the large spring of the baths, they found statues of several heathen gods, made of alabaster; Roman coins, made of bronze, of Augustus, Vespasian, Decius, &c.; and several medals of the Roman emperors, of gold, silver, copper, and bronze. There are two churches in Baden; one of which is collegiate, and makes a good appearance; the other is a monastery of the Capuchins, near the townhouse. This last building serves not only for the assemblies of their own council, but also for those of the cantons. The diet assembles there in a handsome room made for that purpose; the deputies of Zurich sit at the bottom behind a table, as the most honourable place; the ambassadors of foreign powers are seated on one side to the right, and the deputies of the other cantons are ranged on each side the room. The bailiff of Baden resides in a castle at the end of a handsome wooden bridge, which is covered in. Before this castle there is a stone pillar, erected in honour of the emperor Trajan, who paved a road in this country 85 Italian miles in length. The inhabitants are rigid Roman catholics, and formerly behaved in a most insolent manner to the Protestants, but they are now obliged by their masters to be more submissive. The baths which are on each side of the river are a quarter of a league from the city. Joining to the small baths there is a village, and to the large a town which may pass for a second Baden. It is seated on a hill, of which the ascent is steep. There the baths are brought into inns and private houses, by means of pipes, which are about 60 in all. There are also public baths in the middle of the town, from a spring which rises in the street, where the poor bathe gratis, but they are exposed quite naked to all that pass by. All the baths are hot, and one to so great a degree as to scald the hand; and they are impregnated with a great deal of sulphur, with some alum and nitre. They are useful for drinking as well as bathing; and are laid to cure all diseases from a cold cause, headaches, vertigoes, &c. They strengthen the senses, cure diseases of the breast and bowels, asthmas, and obstructions. They are peculiarly excellent for women's diseases. E. Long. 8. 25. N. Lat. 47. 27.

the Margravate of, in the circle of Swabia, in Germany, is bounded by the Palatinate of the Rhine, on the north; by the Black Forest, on the east; by Switzerland, on the south; and by the Rhine, which divides it from Alsace, on the west: and is about 90 miles in length, from north to south; but not above 20 in breadth, where it is widest. It is a very populous and fruitful country, abounding in corn and wine. Venison and wild fowl are so plentiful, that they are the common diet of the peasants. The rivers that water this territory, are the Rhine, Ens, Wirms, and Plints, which yield plenty of fish. They feed their hogs with chestnuts, which make the bacon excellent. They have free-flone for building, and marble of all colours. They have some agate, and great quantities of hemp and flax for exportation. The chief towns are Baden, Durlach, Stolhafen, Rastadt, Gerlsbach, Pfortheim, and Hochberg.

the chief city of the above margravate, has a castle that stands on the top of a hill, which is the residence of a prince. The town is seated among hills, on rocky and uneven ground, which renders the streets inconvenient and crooked. It is famous for its baths, the springs of which are said to be above 300. Some of them are hot, and accounted to be very good in nervous cases. They partake of salt, alum, and sulphur. E. Long. 9. 24. N. Lat. 48. 50.

a town of Germany, in the archduchy of Austria, seated on the Little Suezchat, is a neat little walled town, standing in a plain not far from a ridge of hills which run out from the mountain Cetius. It is much frequented by the people of Vienna, and the neighbouring parts, on account of its baths. The springs supply two convenient baths within the town, five without the walls, and one beyond the river. They are good for distempers of the head, the gout, dropsy, and most chronic diseases. E. Long. 17. 10. N. Lat. 48. 0.