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thing peculiar in its colour, smell, or 

 taste. It is not crude or hard, for it dis- 

 solves soap easily and perfectly. It con- 

 tains no sulphurous principle, for a piece 

 of polished silver, when immersed in it, 

 contracted no-' rust nor dark colour. It 

 contains no acid or alkali in a disengaged 

 state, for on mixing a delicate vegetable 

 colour with it, no change to a greener 

 red colour was perceptible. The water 

 does not contain any selenite, or earthy 

 or alkaline matter, combined with vitri- 

 olic acid, for, on adding a solution of mer- 

 cury in nitrous acid to it, no sediment 

 was deposited ; nor does it contain any 

 earthy matter in combination with marine 

 acid, nor any copper, nor zinc ; for, on 

 mixing mineral and volatile alkalies with 

 thewater, no precipitate was formed. On 

 mixture with a decoction of gails, the wa- 

 ter acquired a blackish tinge, which 

 shows it to be slightly impregnated with 

 iron. On a mixture with a solution of sil- 

 ver in nitrous acid, some precipitate of 

 luna cornea was produced ; this shows it 

 to contain a very small portion of sea-salt, 

 but not more than the common water of 

 Trincomallee, upon which the solution 

 of silver had the same effect, with- this 

 difference, that the precipitate from the 

 \v:iter of the hot-wells was blackest, pro- 

 bably from the impregnation of iron. 

 These experiments were made at the 

 wells, with water from those of the high- 

 est and of the lowest temperature, on the 

 4t!i of July, 1798, when the heat of the- 

 atmosphere was at 91 degrees. They 

 were also repealed upon the water after 

 it was brought to Trincomallee, with the 

 same effect. From them it would appear . 

 that the hot-wells of Cannia possess few 

 mineral qualities, or indeed any virtue 

 besides their heat, which is of a tempera- 

 ture not unfavourable for hot bathing. 

 For many complaints also, the drinking 

 of hot water is recommended, and for this 

 purpose, as well as for bathing, a hot 

 spring is preferable to water heated arti- 

 ficially, because it is always of a fixed de- 

 gree of temperature." 



It is extremely probable that an analy- 

 sis of the water from the liners of Iceland 

 would produce nearly the same result, 

 whence it may be safely concluded, that 

 the water is suddenly heated in its pas- 

 sage through the fissures or caverns of 

 the earth by its approach to volcanic fires, 

 and that it's properties are exactly the 

 same with those of the springs which 

 flow from the bases of hills in a perfectly' 

 cold state. 



HUGONIA, in botany, so named in 

 metnory of Augustus Johannes de Hugo, 



a genus of the Monadelphia Decandrist 

 class and order. Natural order of Colum- 

 niferae. Malvaceae, Jussieu. Essential 

 character: five-styled; corolla five petal- 

 led ; drupe with a striated nut. There is 

 but one species ; viz, II. mystax, a native 

 of the East Indies. 



HUGUENOTS, a term of contempt, 

 first given to the French protestants in 

 the year 1560. The origin of this term 

 is much involved in obscurity; and various 

 attempts have been made to account for 

 it, and for its application to the friends of 

 the reformed church in France. Some 

 suppose the appellation of Huguenots 

 was derived from Huguon, a word used in 

 Ton rain,- signifying persons that walk du- 

 ring the night season in the streets, and 

 that it was applied to the French Protes- 

 tants in consequence of their making 

 choice of that season, in order to avoid 

 persecution, in which to perform public 

 worship. Others, again, believe, that this 

 term owes its origin to the name of a sup- 

 posed hobgoblin, called king Hugon, that 

 was said to wander about the streets of 

 Tours during the night-time, and that the 

 reformed where the disciples of this noc- 

 turnal monarch. But the most probable 

 conjecture seems to be, that this term 

 owes its origin to an erroneous pronuncia- 

 tion by the French of the German word 

 Eidgnossen, which signifies sivorn-fello-tus, 

 or confederates. This had been originally 

 the name of that part of the inhabitants 

 of Geneva, who entered into an alliance 

 with the Swiss cantons, in order to main- 

 tain their liberties against the tyrannical 

 attempts of Charles III. Duke of Savoy. 

 These valiant confederates were called 

 Eignots, and from thence it is not at all 

 unlikely was derived the word Hugue- 

 nots. 



To whatever cause this term owes its 

 origin, it is certain that the Christians of 

 the French Protestants churches, which it 

 was made to designate, suffered most se- 

 verely from the persecutions which at 

 that time, and after the revocation of the 

 edict of Nantes, raged with desolating 

 fury both-in France and other countries. 

 The countenance and support of many 

 princes of the royal blood, and of several 

 of the nobility, could not save the Hugue- 

 nots from suffering the most unparalleled 

 persecution. Peace itself, which had 

 been granted them by Henry III. in the. 

 year 1576, proved tne foundation of a 

 most terrible civil war. The profligate 

 House of Guise, urged by the wicked and 

 cruel suggestions of the Roman Pontiffs, 

 did whatever lay in its power to destroy 



