'Vidi ego in Monte Sorano cryptam veluti glacie incrustatam, ingentibus in fornice hinc inde stiriis dependentibus, e quibus vicini mentis accolæ pocula æstivo tempore conficiunt, aquæ vinoque quæ iis infunduntur refrigerandis aptissima, extremo rigore in summas bibentium delicias commutato.'

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Both here and at Schemnitz, Kircher made particular enquiries on a subject of which scientific men have altogether lost sight. At Schemnitz he asked the superintendent, an comparcant Dæmunculi vel pygmæi in fodinis?—respondit affirmative, et narrat plura exempla; and at Herrengrund, utrum appareant Dæmunculi seu pygmæi?—respondit tales visos fuisse, et auditos pluries. (Edition of 1678, ii. 203, 205.)

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Reich, 199.

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i. 108 (Lyon, 1794).

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Ueber die unterirdischen Gasarten, 101.

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