Show NATURAL ICE reservoirs in many countries ice is obtained from rom natural ice the he ordinary temperature outside is 80 degrees ice continually forming such a ravine or cavern has been f found ou d in new ne tv jersey and near lincoln vermont there isla glen in which snow and ice ile lle all nil the year round one of the most remarkable of these ice caverns is that of Dob in hungary it is juite quite near the town and is reproached through a narrow limestone valley called enar thal thai it is in the interior of a mountain having a general direction east cast and west the entrance is near the top and extremely narrow and was only discovered by accident once inside a remarkable scene is beli bell beheld eld eid the ice which seems formed in many layers baving having assumed all the peculiar shapes that charac lerine the limestone caves eaves of our own country the total rock and ice surface in the cave alone occupy about square feet the cave is divided into two parts upper and lower in the upper part the roof is of limestone and the floor of solid ice and is divided divide dinto into two great halls of wondrous beauty the roof of the largest hall is s supported port by three enormous pillars 0 of up clear ice one of which is hollow and through which flows a stream from above producing strange echoes and reverberations all ali about are fant fantastic astl asti forms of ice resembling human beings pulpits monuments and so on giving to the tiie cave a most grotesque appe appearance ar in one end the ice forms an exact representation of a lar iare large lare e cascade as if a rushing stream with its spray had been budde suddenly frozen solid descending bendl n to the lower room the passage is 11 COO feet in length and by following down the ice you come to the natural outlet of the water in all countries such caves eaves have been found so extensive is the ice cavern on the peak of teneriffe that it affords a manent source of sup supply ly and even i vessels are loaded with its ts ice this ice iee is columnar in shape and does not melt easily and so can be transported without great loss near the village of Stel itze in the carpathian mountains there is one of the largest ice caverns in the world and curiously enough it freezes in the summer and melts in the winter for instance in midsummer the roof is entirely covered with icicles but in winter they disappear and by U christmas time the cavern is dry and warm compared to the outside world ice begins to form as soon as the s spring P ring opens in some deep mines lee lorms forms at certain periods this is the case ease in some of of the salt mines in the ural mountains great cavities are formed in the gyp sum and in the winter they are filled with clear water but in the summer they are frozen solid ex |