iv. pp. 71, 72, in connection with the glaciere near Besancon.]
[Footnote 61: M. Soret, who visited the Schafloch in September 1860, and
communicated his notes to M. Thury, speaks of many columns in this part
of the glaciere, where we found only two. 'L'un d'entre eux,' he says,
'presentait dans sa partie inferieure une petite grotte ou cavite, assez
grande pour qu'un homme put y entrer en se courbant.']
[Footnote 62: See also the note at the end of this chapter.]
[Footnote 63: 'Toute la couche superieure au plan de niveau passant par
le seuil etait chargee de brouillard; toute la couche inferieure a ce
niveau etait parfaitement limpide.' (_Thury_, p. 37.)]
[Footnote 64: Respectively, 32 deg..666, 36 deg..266, and 32 deg., Fahrenheit.]
[Footnote 65: Since I wrote this chapter, my attention has been called
to a tourist's account of the Schafloch in _Once a Week_ (Nov. 26,
1864), in an article called _An Ice-cavern in the Justis-Thal._ The
writer says--'We proceeded to the farther end of the cavern, or at least
as far as we thought it prudent, to ascertain where the flooring of ice
rounded off into the abyss of unfathomable water we heard trickling
below.
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