How he could enter, from below, a water-logged
cave, does not appear to have been explained.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 98: The _Caves of Szelicze_ are mentioned in Murray's
_Handbook of Southern Germany_ (1858, p. 555), where the following
account is given of them:--'During the winter a great quantity of ice
accumulates in these caves, which is not entirely melted before the
commencement of the ensuing winter. In the summer months they are
consequently filled with vast masses of ice broken up into a thousand
fantastic forms, and presenting by their lucidity a singular contrast to
the sombre vaults and massive stalactites of the cavern.'
The _Drachenhoehle_ (Murray, 1. c.p. 553), a series of caverns not far
from Neusohl in Hungary, afford another instance of an ice-cave, one of
the largest of them being said to be coated with a sheet of translucid
ice, through which the stalactitic fretwork of the vault is seen to
great advantage.]
[Footnote 99: Not far from Kaschau.]
[Footnote 100: _Travels in Hungary_, 1797, pp. 317, &c.]
[Footnote 101: _A Peep into Toorkistan_; London, 1846; chapters x.
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