With Spelman in my mind, I asked if the stables
were not unhealthy; but the soldiers said they were the healthiest in
the town.[45]
The Glaciere of Vaise had proved, as has been seen, to be a
mare's-nest; and yet, after all, it produced a foal; for while I was
endeavouring to overcome the evening heat of Besancon in a
_specialite_ for ice, I found that the owner of the establishment was
also the owner of the two glacieres of Vaise; and in the course of the
conversation which followed, he told me of the existence of a natural
glaciere near the village of Arc-sous-Cicon, twenty kilometres from
Pontarlier, which he had himself seen. As I had arranged to meet my
sisters at Neufchatel, in two days' time, for the purpose of visiting
a glaciere in the Val de Travers, this piece of information came very
opportunely, and I determined to attempt both glacieres with them.
Some of the trains from Besancon stop for an hour at Dole in passing
towards Switzerland by way of Pontarlier, and anyone who is interested
in the Burgundian and Spanish wars of France should take this
opportunity of seeing what may be seen of the town of Dole and its
massive church-tower.
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