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Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland

CHAPTER V
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Gollut (in 1592) spelled the name _Aucelle_, and derived it from _Auricella_, believing that the Romans worked a gold mine there.

It is certain that both the Doubs and the Loue supplied very fine gold, and the Seigneurs of Longwy had a chain made of the gold of those rivers, which weighed 160 crowns.] [Footnote 31: Dion Cass.lib.

lxiii.] [Footnote 32: Ib.lib.

lxvi.] [Footnote 33: Known locally as the _Porte Noire_, like the great _Porta Nigra_ at Treves, and other Roman gates in Gaul.] [Footnote 34: I should be inclined, from what I saw of the country, to go to the station of Baume-les-Dames on any future visit, and walk thence to the glaciere, perhaps three leagues from the station.] [Footnote 35: He was in error.

The Paris correspondent of the 'Times' gave, some months since (see the impression of Jan.


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