The water of the Great Geyser contained soda in various forms; but the chief ingre dients is a charge of about 31 grammes of silica to 6 gallons. This forms the incrusta tions around the pools, reaching to the bulk of a little hill in the case of the Great Geyser.
AUGUST FnrEnnicit, a German historian, was born at Calw, in the Black AugustUST FnrEnnicit, a German historian, was born at Calw, in the Black Forest, Mar. 5,1803. Although he studied for the church, he had lost all taste for its practical work when he completed his theological education in 1825. After spending some time at Lausanne and Geneva, where he mastered the French language, he went to Rome in 1827 to study Italian. On his return next year, he became a repetent, or tutor, in the theological institution at Tubingen; in 1829, he was removed to a similar situation iu Stuttgart; and in 1830, he was appointed national librarian. He now aban doned ecclesiastical life entirely, and devoted himself to literature. The first fruit of his studies was a work on Philo and the Judmo-Alexandrian Theosophy in their relation to the doctrine of the New Testament (Philo und die jadisch-Alevandrinische Theosophic, 2 Bde., Stutt., 1831). This formed the first part of a larger work on the History of Primitive Christianity (Gesch. Urchristenthums), which was completed in 1838, in three other parts: Between the beginning and completion of this work, GfrOrer's views on Christ and Christianity had undergone a change, which appeared also in his History of Gustavus AdolphuS and his Times (Gustav Adolf, Konig von Schweden, und Seine Zeit,
Stut., 1833-37), for the first edition of that work takes at the commencement the side of the Guelphs, and towards the close, that of the Ghibellines—an impropriety which was corrected in the second edition (1811 15). After a work on the Prophetic Vetere,* Pseudepigraphi (Stutt., 1840), GfrOrer published his Allgemeine Kirchengesaichte (Stutt., 1841-46), which, extending to seven volumes, brings church history down to 1305. While working at this history, he came to the conviction that the Roman Catholic is the true church, and that the Reformation originated to a large extent in misunderstanding and the ambition of princes. He was called in 1846 to the Catholic university at Frei burg, and there was drawn into manifold conflicts, which were fought again more ear nestly at the Frankfurt parliament in 1848, where he was one of the most decided adherents of the party called the grossdeutschen. In 1848, appeared his history of the Carlovingians of Eastern and Western Franconia (Gesell. d. ost- wesTranicischen Ifarolinger, 2 Bde., Stutt.); in 1855, the first two volumes of a work on the early his tory of mankind alrgesch. d. menschliehea Geschleehts, Schaff.); and in 1861, the con cluding vol. of Pabst Gregorius VIL und Seiner Zeit, 7 Bde., Schaffh.). He died in 1861. His Geschkhte des 18 Jahr appeared in 1863; and Zur Geschichte deutscher Voldsrcchte in 1866. In all these works he gave emphatic expression to his views on ecclesi astical affairs.