Cave with Ice on the Mitterstein. (Fugger, Eishöhlen, page 23.)—On the Dachstein, one hour and a quarter from the Austria hut. Altitude about 1800 meters. Cave 5 meters to 6 meters wide, 30 meters long. In the rear a passage leads apparently to a windhole where there is a strong draught.
Windholes in the Obersulzbach Valley in the Pinzgau. (Fugger, Eishöhlen, page 105.)—Fugger found ice among these on the 1st of August, 1886.
Ice in an Abandoned Nickel Mine on the Zinkwand, in the Schladming Valley. (Fugger, Eishöhlen, page 105.)
Windholes on the Rothen Kogel near Aussee. (Fugger, Eishöhlen, page 106.)—These were found to contain ice on the 2d of September, 1848.
Cave on the Langthalkogel. (Fugger, Eishöhlen, page 23.)—On the Dachstein plateau between Hallstatt and Gosau. A small cave which contains ice.
Eislunghöhle. (Fugger, Eishöhlen, page 24.)—A small cave between the Hochkasten and Ostrowiz in the Priel range.
The Geldloch or Seelücken on the Oetscher. (Schmidl, Die Höhlen des Ötscher and Die Oesterreichischen Höhlen; Cranmer and Sieger, Globus, 1899, pages 313-318, and 333-335.)—The second known notice of a glacière cave is the account of a visit to the Oetscher Caves in 1591. After lying in manuscript for two and a half centuries, it was published by Dr. A. Schmidl in 1857, in Die Höhlen des Ötscher, pages 21-36. According to the account, which is naive, but evidently truthful, Kaiser Rudolf II. ordered Reichard Strein, owner of the Herrschaff Friedeck, to investigate the Ötscher and especially its caves. He did so, with the title of Kaiserlicher Commissarius, and accompanied by the Bannerherr Christoph Schallenberger, Hans Gasser, and eleven porters. On September the 16th, 1591, they visited the Seelücken, where they found a lake in the front of the cave, and where the party had great difficulties in climbing round on to the ice.
The Seelücken on the Oetscher is situated at an altitude of 1470 meters. It opens nearly due south. The ice floor is about 20 meters below the entrance and is about 38 meters long and 24 meters wide; at the rear, it rises for some 15 meters as an ice wall at an angle of about 60°, and then forms a second ice floor about 45 meters long by 19 meters wide. The front part of the ice is sometimes, about July, covered with water. The cave continues further back, in two branches, and Professors Cranmer and Sieger consider that it is a large windhole, in which draughts are infrequent, on account of its length and because the openings are near the same level. There are also several up and down curves and in these cold air remains and acts something like a cork in stopping draughts.
On the 13th of September there were no draughts, and the temperatures between 11 A. M. and 12 M. were:—