fashionable watering-place

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• CAUTERETS —    a fashionable watering place in the dep. of the Hautes Pyrénées, 3250 ft. above the sea, with sulphurous springs of very ancient repute, 25 in number, and of varying temperature …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

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