'The most wonderful thing,' Olafsen remarks, 'that we noticed here, was, that the stalactites of ice were set with regular figures of five and seven sides, joined together, and resembling those seen on the second stomach of ruminating animals.

The condensed cold of the air must have imparted these figures to the ice; they were not external (merely ?), but in the ice itself, which otherwise was clear and transparent.' Henderson and his party appear to have had much more wading to do than Olafsen, walking in one instance through a long tract of water up to the knees.

In the deeper recesses of the cave, apparently in the part where the earlier explorers had found the reticulated ice, they found the whole floor of the passage covered with thick ice, with so steep a dip that they sat down and slid forward by their own weight--a most undignified proceeding for a grave gentleman on a mission from the Bible Society.

On holding their torches close to the floor, they saw down to a depth of 7 or 8 feet, the ice being as clear as crystal.

'The roof and sides of the cave were decorated with most superb icicles, crystallised in every possible form, many of which rivalled in minuteness the finest zeolites; while from the icy floor rose pillars of the same substance, assuming all the curious and phantastic shapes imaginable, mocking the proudest specimens of art, and counterfeiting many well-known objects of animated nature.