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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 362 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town and watering-See also:place of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hesse-See also:Nassau, romantically situated on both See also:banks of the See also:Lahn, in a valley surrounded by wooded mountains and See also:vine-clad hills, Ir m. E. from See also:Coblenz on the railway to See also:Cassel and See also:Berlin. Pop. 6500. It has two Evangelical, a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, an See also:English and a See also:Russian See also:church. There is some See also:mining See also:industry (See also:silver and See also:lead). Ems is one of the most delightful and fashionable watering-places of See also:Europe. Its waters—hot alkaline springs about twenty in number—are used both for drinking and bathing, and are efficacious in chronic See also:nervous disorders, feminine complaints and affections of the See also:liver and See also:respiratory See also:organs. On the right See also:bank of the See also:river lies the Kursaal with See also:pretty gardens. A See also:stone let into the See also:promenade See also:close by marks the spot where, on the 13th of See also:July 1870, See also:King See also:William of See also:Prussia had the famous interview with the See also:French See also:ambassador See also:Count See also:Benedetti (q.v.) which resulted in the See also:war of 187o-1871. A funicular railway runs up to the Malberg (moo ft.), where is a See also:sanatorium and whence extensive views are obtained over the See also:Rhine valley. Ems is largely frequented in the summer months by visitors from all parts of the world—the See also:numbers amounting to about 11,000 annually—and many handsome villas have been erected for their 'See also:accommodation.

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August 1786 Ems was the See also:scene of the See also:conference of the delegates of the four See also:German archbishops, known as the See also:congress of Ems, which issued (August 25) in the famous See also:joint pronouncement, known as the Punctation of Ems, against the interference of the papacy in the affairs of the Catholic Church in Germany (see F'EBRONIANISM). See See also:Vogler, Ems, See also:seine Heilquellen, Kureinrichtungen, &c. (Ems, 1888) ; and See also:Hess, Zur Geschichte der Stadt Ems (Ems, 1895).

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