[9] These baths, impregnated with medicinal herbs, and other
preparations, are at the present day gaining great repute for
the cure of cutaneous diseases, and other complaints.

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The Sketch Book.

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RECOLLECTIONS OF A WANDERER.

_An Incident on the Coast._


Towards the close of an afternoon in the dreary month of December, a
small vessel was descried in the offing, from the pier of a romantic
little hamlet on the coast of ----. The pier was this evening nearly
deserted by those bold spirits, who, when sea and sky conspire to frown
together, loved to resort there to while away their idle hours. Only a
few "out-and-outers" were now to be seen at their accustomed station,
defying the rough buffetings of the blast, which on more tender faces
might have acted almost with the keenness of a razor. Though the evening
certainly looked wild and stormy to an unpractised eye, still to those
who "gauge the weather" it was unaccompanied with those unerring
symptoms which usually usher in a gale. However, the appearance of the