‘As soon as this trough was passed,’ says Mr. Browne, ‘the ice spread out like a fan, and finally landed us in a second cavern, 72 feet long by 36 feet broad, to which this was the only entrance. The breadth of the fan at the bottom was 27 feet, and near the archway a very striking column poured from a vertical fissure in the wall, and joined the main stream. The fissure was partially open to the cave, and showed the solid round column within the rock: this column measured 18½ feet in circumference, a little below the point where it became free of the fissure, and it had a stream of ice 22 feet long pouring from its base. The peculiar structure of the ice gave the whole mass the appearance of coursing down very rapidly, as if the water had been frozen while thus moving, and had not therefore ceased so to move.... At the farthest end of the cave, a lofty dome opened up in the roof, beneath which a very lovely cluster of columns had grouped itself, formed of clear porcelain- like ice, and fretted and festooned with the utmost delicacy, as if Andersen’s Ice Maiden had been there in one of her amiable moods and had built herself a palace.’ [Illustration: ICE STREAMS IN THE UPPER GLACIÈRE OF ST. LIVRES.] In Upper Styria, the Frauenmauer Mountain, which overlooks the mining town of Eisenerz, contains a remarkable ice-chamber, consisting of a grotto from thirty to forty fathoms long, decked with ice-crystals, pillars of ice, and cascades of the same material, the floor being composed of ice as smooth as glass. In the summer pleasure parties assemble in the cave, and amuse themselves with sliding down its sloping ice-floors. In his work on the Natural Wonders of the Austrian Empire, the naturalist Sartori describes his visit to an ice-cave on the Brandstein, a peak situated in the same district, which thus appears to be rich in glacières. He found _crimpons_ necessary for descending the frozen snow, which led from the entrance to the floor of the cave, where he discovered pillars and capitals and pyramids of ice of every possible shape and variety, as if the cave had contained the ruins of a Gothic church or a fairy palace. At the further end, after passing large cascades of ice, his party reached a dark grey hole, which lighted up into blue and green under the influence of the torches; they could not discover the end of this hole, and the stones which they rolled down into it seemed to go on for ever. Other natural glacières are also mentioned as occurring in Bohemia, Hungary, the Harz, in several places in North America, and probably there are few mountainous regions without them.