Persberg Iron Mines, Sweden. (J. Prestwich, Collected papers, etc., on page 206, quotes Dr. Clark’s Travels in Scandinavia.)—Ice is said to have been found on the sides and bottom of the mine to a depth of about 135 meters.
Ice Caves Reported in Norway.—I was told in Norway that some of the caves in the mountains near the Swartisen ice field contained ice, but I do not know whether this is true. I suspect that there are glacier ice caves which have given rise to this report.
ENGLAND.
Helvellyn, Cumberland. (Wordsworth, Fidelity.)—The following verses were pointed out to me by Mr. Bunford Samuel. As far as I know they are the only poetry about glacières:—
“It was a cove, a huge recess
That keeps, till June, December’s snow;
A lofty precipice in front,
A silent tarn below!
Far in the bosom of Helvellyn,
Remote from public road or dwelling
Pathway or cultivated land
From trace of human foot or hand."
Ice in an Old Copper Mine, Cumberland. (J. Clifford Ward, Nature, vol. XI., page 310.)—Ice reported as a rare occurrence.
Ludchurch Chasm, Staffordshire. (R. K. Dent and Joseph Hill’s Historic Staffordshire, quote Dr. Plot, 1686.)—Mr. Bunford Samuel called my attention to this book, in which Dr. Plot is quoted as saying that as late as the 17th of July, snow has been found in Ludchurch Chasm. Messrs. Dent and Hill do not mention anything of the kind as occurring now.
Blowing Cave in Denbighshire, Wales.—A newspaper cutting says that there are such strong eruptions of winds from a cave in this neighborhood as to toss back to a great height in the air any article of apparel thrown in.