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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.

and xi.] [Footnote 102: They were now in a country far removed from the Affghans, and hostile to that people.] [Footnote 103: The remainder of this paragraph is in Captain Burslem's own words.] [Footnote 104: I am indebted for the knowledge of the existence of these caves to W.A.Sandford, Esq., F.G.S., who informed me that an account of them was to be found in a book of travels by an English officer.

I am not aware that they have been visited on any other occasion than this.] [Footnote 105: _Reise durch Island_, Copenhagen, 1744 (being a German translation from the original Danish), i.