'In five minutes,' he continues, 'we reached the most beautiful fairy grotto imaginable.

From the crystal floor of ice rose up group after group of transparent icy pillars, while from the glittering roof most brilliant icy pendants hung down to meet them.
Columns and arches of ice were ranged along the crystalline walls ...

I never saw a more brilliant scene; and indeed it would be difficult to imagine anything more fairy-like.

The pillars were many of them of great size, tapering to a point as they rose.

The largest were at least 8 feet high, and 6 feet in circumference at their base.