The principal southern and Swiss health resorts : their climate and medical aspect . the sun-shed. As soon as we reached this stationour mule drivers, who were more thirsty than tired,made an immediate start for water, which was to befound in a remarkable cave at a quarter of an hoursdistance higher up towards the terminal cone. Leaving the mules in camp we moved on, and pre-sently came upon a hole in the lava the size of whichI found by direct measurement to be thirteen feetseven inches by seven feet five inches ; this openingwas a perforation through the dome of a cave fourteenfeet three inc
The principal southern and Swiss health resorts : their climate and medical aspect . the sun-shed. As soon as we reached this stationour mule drivers, who were more thirsty than tired,made an immediate start for water, which was to befound in a remarkable cave at a quarter of an hoursdistance higher up towards the terminal cone. Leaving the mules in camp we moved on, and pre-sently came upon a hole in the lava the size of whichI found by direct measurement to be thirteen feetseven inches by seven feet five inches ; this openingwas a perforation through the dome of a cave fourteenfeet three inches deep at that place. Inside the cavea heap of snow was seen on raised ground, whilenear it there was clear water over a bed of ice. Thecave looked like a huge oven into which the onlyadmittance would be through a hole in the roof. As soon as we reached the spot one of the mule-drivers prepared to be lowered down into it with arope, but the Chamonix guide, a tall and particularlypowerful man, proposed at once to go down withoutany kind of assistance. Great surprise was shown by. /lLTAVISTA,a0700TEETj OK IIIE fiAIv Uy lillEIlIFFE, THE tiECmu biAiiihWITH THE EEMAINS OF W. PIAZZI SMYTHS STATION mlSbB FrowctFfwto^raf^-
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