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Updated: May 15, 2025
He believed the rock to be very ancient lava. Reich mentions a cavern on Mount Sorano which contains ice, quoting Kircher; but he seems to have misinterpreted his author's Latin. He also refers to the existence of ice in the mines of Herrengrund in Hungary, and Dannemora in Sweden.
This had been noticed so long ago as Kircher's time; for among the answers which his questions received from the miners of Herrengrund, we find it stated that, so long as mines are dry, the deeper they are the hotter; but if they have water, they are less warm, however deep.
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. Ak. in Wien, B. xliii., 1te Abth., S. 435.
Kircher, who has the credit of having been the first to call attention to the increase of temperature in the earth, made full enquiries into the temperature of the mines at Herrengrund, but he was not informed of the existence of ice. ; Townson visited these mines in the course of his travels in Hungary, and neither does he make any mention of ice in connection with them.
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