The Caves of Szelicze are mentioned in Murray's Handbook of Southern Germany (1858, p. 555), where the following account is given of them:—'During the winter a great quantity of ice accumulates in these caves, which is not entirely melted before the commencement of the ensuing winter. In the summer months they are consequently filled with vast masses of ice broken up into a thousand fantastic forms, and presenting by their lucidity a singular contrast to the sombre vaults and massive stalactites of the cavern.'
Not far from Kaschau.
Travels in Hungary, 1797, pp. 317, &c.
A Peep into Toorkistan; London, 1846; chapters x. and xi.
They were now in a country far removed from the Affghans, and hostile to that people.