The Argosy — page 313: what you’re looking at

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The Baths of Gastein. 295 were nevertheless enjoyed and looked forward to ; and when after the seventh a day’s rest was advised, it created a blank in the quiet life. Subsequent baths were but a repetition of the first. After each one of them there was the same light and buoyant feeling ; nought of languor or relaxation ; no inducement to sleep or heaviness. But the lightness and buoyancy would go off after a time, and leave one, not prostrated. but disinclined for all exertion. This appeared to be the result not of — oe — a S oe Pi al ’ i ~ og Te =. “hy, i —_—_—_—_—_=_=_ — - — # 7 = | LOWER WATERFALL. | the baths, but of the warm relaxing air: an influence that everyone cannot battle with. No doubt it affects people in different ways according to their con- stitutions or maladies. To those suffering from want of strength or overwork, Gastein will give no immediate relief beyond the relief always yielded by perfect rest. Shut in so closely by mountains there are times when they appear to weigh upon the spirit with strong oppression, and it seems an effort to draw breath. You pant to get beyond and above them ; the eye wearies of its confined ‘vision, and longs once COMICEOOOKS.CO