The Swiss peasants have never yet got so far as to say that the snow in their pits disappears in winter and returns in summer. Boué found the temperature of the bottom of the pit to be 28°.4 F., while that of the air outside was 76° F. The same writer mentions a source in a mill-stone quarry in Bosnia which is frozen till the end of June. Alpen-Vereins, ii. 441.
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