BILIN (

See also:

• CZECH (in Bohemian, Cech)

Czech Bilina)  , a town of Bohemia, Austria, 90 m . N. of Prague by rail . Pop . (1900) 7871, chiefly German . It is a very old town situated on the Biela, and contains a 17th-century castle, belonging to Prince Lobkowitz . In the vicinity of the towns are extensive lignite mines . Bilin is famous for its mineral springs, the Biliner Sauerbrunnen . They have a temperature of 45.6° F., and contain a large proportion of bicarbonate of soda . About 4,000,000 bottles of water are exported annually, and another article of export is the salt recovered from the water by evaporation . About 5 M. to the S. of the Sauerbrunnen lies the Boren or Biliner Stein (1763 ft.)a large mass of phonolite or clinkstone, with rare flora and fine view . The town is indeed surrounded by basaltic rocks, the largest of them being the Radelstein (2460 ft.), from which a fine view is obtained .