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LEUK (Fr. Loeche Ville)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 504 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LEO-LOB
LEUK (Fr. Loeche Ville) , an ancient and very picturesque little town in the Swiss
canton
  of the
Valais
 . It is built above the right bank of the Rhone, and is about 1 m. from the Leuk-Susten station (15 2 M.
east
  of Sion and 17 z M. west of
Brieg
 ) on the Simplon railway. In r000 it had 1592 inhabitants, all but wholly German-speaking and Romanists. About 102 m. by a winding carriage road N. of Leuk, and near the head of the Dala valley, at a height of 4629 ft. above the sea-level, and over-shadowed by the cliffs of the Gemmi Pass (7641 ft.; q.v.) leading over to the Bernese Oberland, are the Baths of Leuk (Leukerbad, or Loeche les Bains). They have only 613 permanent inhabitants, but are much frequented in summer by visitors (largely French and Swiss) attracted by the hot
mineral
  springs. These are 22 in number, and are very abundant. The
principal
  is that of St Laurence, the water of which has a temperature of 124 F. The season lasts from June to September. The
village
  in winter is
long
  deprived of sunshine, and is much exposed to avalanches, by which it was destroyed in 1518, 1719 and 1756, but it is now
protected by a strong
embankment
  from a similar
catastrophe
 . (W. A. B. C.)


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