In Gehler’s Physik.  Woerterbuch (Art Hoehle), a small hole is mentioned near Dole, which is said to be remarkable for the large and curiously-shaped icicles found there; but no sufficient account of it seems to have been given.

An ice-hole is also spoken of in the same article, which occurs on the east side of the town of Vesoul.[129] The hole is described as being small, with a little rivulet of water:  this water, and also that which trickles down the walls of the cave, is converted into ice, and so much is formed on a cold day that it requires eight warm days to melt it.  Gollut, in his description of the fre-puits of Vesoul,[130] 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 fre-puits; so that these would seem to be two different examples of cold caves near Vesoul.

There is an interesting account in Poggendorff’s Annalen[131] of a visit made by Professor A. Pleischl to a mountain in the circle of Leitmeritz, where ice is found in summer under very curious circumstances.  The mountain is called Pleschiwetz, and lies above Kameik, in Bohemia, not far from the town of Leitmeritz.  On the 24th of June in each year, large numbers of pilgrims assemble at the romantic chapel of S. John the Baptist in the Wilderness; and it is a part of their occupation to search for ice under the basaltic rocks, and carry it home wrapped in moss, as a proof that they have really made the pilgrimage.  Professor Pleischl visited this district at the end of May 1834.  The weather was hot for the season, as had been the case in April also, and there had been very little snow in the winter.  A path leads from the chapel of S. John through the woods which deck the Pleschiwetz, and then over a small plain to the foot of the basaltic rocks.  Here the mountain slopes away very steeply to the south, and the slope is thickly strewn with basaltic debris.  From east to west this slope measures about 40 fathoms, and its length is about 70 fathoms.  It is surrounded on both sides and at the foot by trees and shrubs.  The sun burned so directly on to the debris, that the basaltic blocks were in some cases too hot to be touched by the naked hand.

Professor Pleischl spent three hours of the early afternoon on this spot.  The upper surface of the basaltic blocks had a temperature of at least 122 deg.  F. The presence of an icy current was detected by inserting the hand into the lower crevices; and on removing the loose stones to a depth of 1-1/2 or 2 feet, ice was found in considerable quantities.  On the 27th of August, he proceeded to make a further investigation of this phenomenon; but he found the temperature of the blocks only 106 deg.  F., and in the crevices, at a depth of 2 or 3 feet, the lowest temperature reached was 38 deg..75 F. The external temperature in the shade was at the same time 83 deg.  F.