"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. Tin Croft Mine, Cornwall. (J. Prestwich, _Collected papers_, etc., page 206, quotes Mr. Moyle.)--Ice has been found in abundance in this mine at a depth of nearly 100 meters. CENTRAL EUROPE. Glacière de Chaux-les-Passavant. Described in Part I., page 8. (Poissenot, _Nouvelles Histoires Tragiques de Benigne Poissenot, licencié aux lois. A Paris, chez Guillaume Bichon, rue S. Jacques, a l'enseigne du Bichot, 1586, avec privilege du Roy_, pages 436-453. Gollut, _Les Mémoires historiques de la Repub. Sequanoise, et des princes de la Franche Comté de Bourgogne, par M. Lois Gollut, Advocat au Parlement de Dôle; A Dôle, 1592_. Trouillet, _Mémoires de la Société d'Émulation du Doubs, 1885_. Girardot, _Mémoires de la Société d'Émulation du Doubs, 1886_.) The earliest notice of a glacière which I have been able to find is in the shape of a letter giving an account of a visit to the Glacière de Chaux-les-Passavant in 1584, by Benigne Poissenot, a French lawyer. The account, which I have translated as literally as possible, is in a special chapter, as follows:--