INSUFFICIENCY
OF THE
THEORIES PROPOSED FOR EXPLAINING THERMAL HEAT.
“No stranger,” says Mr. Berzelius, “contemplates the boiling and springing Sprudel without asking whence its temperature proceeds. The answer is the more difficult, as in the absolute impossibility of reaching the hearth which imparts it, we shall never know the means employed by Nature to form it, nor how that water is impregnated with substances, of which, as far as investigations have shewn, the mountains of Carlsbad contain too little to account for the enormous quantities of sulfate and carbonate of soda, emitted from the wells, in the course of only one year.”
“It is highly probable,” adds he, “that the heat and nature of the substances, which impregnate this water, are so closely united, that the cause of
