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The opening is large and faces due south, and yet the hotter the day the more ice is found; whereas in winter a warm steam comes out, as if from a stove. The other cave is farther into the mountain; it is spacious and light, and very cold in summer. In Gehler's Physik. An ice-hole is also spoken of in the same article, which occurs on the east side of the town of Vesoul.
In 1810, after more than two centuries of undisturbed Spanish rule, the latter had sunk to $1,150,000. Since then they have gradually increased; and in 1861 they reached $2,130,000. The Panama canal prevents this. Navarrete, IV, 54 Obs. 1a. According to Gehler's Phys. Lex. VI, 450, the log was first mentioned by Purchas in an account of a voyage to the East Indies in 1608.
Gollut, in his description of the fré-puits of Vesoul, observes that the remarkable pit known by that name was so cold, that in his time it had never been fully explored. Gehler's expression, however, 'a small hole, cannot possibly apply to the fré-puits; so that these would seem to be two different examples of cold caves near Vesoul.
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