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[Footnote 173: _Turquie d'Europe,_ i. 132 (he quotes himself as i. 180,
in the _Sitzungsb, der k. Ak. in Wien_, xlix. l. 324).]
[Footnote 174: L.c., p, 521.]
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CHAPTER XVII.
HISTORY OF THEORIES RESPECTING THE CAUSES OF SUBTERRANEAN ICE.
The only glaciere which is in any sense historical, is that near
Besancon; and a brief account of the different theories which have been
advanced in explanation of the phenomena presented by it, will include
almost all that has been written on ice-caves.
The first mention I have found of this cave is contained in an old
history of the Franche Comte of Burgundy, published at Dole in 1592, to
which reference has been already made. Gollut, the author, speaks more
than once of a _glaciere_ in his topographical descriptions, and in a
short account of it he states that it lay near the village of _Leugne_,
which I find marked in the Delphinal Atlas very near the site of the
Chartreuse of Grace-Dieu; so that there can be no doubt that his
glaciere was the same with that which now exists.
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