Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland by George Forrest Browne
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vous ne le hayés pas.'--_Petitot_. iii. 9.]
[Footnote 28: Mém. de la Comté de Bourgougne, Dôle, 1592, p. 486.] [Footnote 29: One of the Seigneurs de Chissey, Michaud de Changey, who died in high office in 1480, was known by preeminence as _le Brave_.] [Footnote 30: Dr. Buckland visited these caves in 1826, to look for bones, of which he found a great number. Gollut (in 1592) spelled the name _Aucelle_, and derived it from _Auricella_, believing that the Romans worked a gold mine there. It is certain that both the Doubs and the Loue supplied very fine gold, and the Seigneurs of Longwy had a chain made of the gold of those rivers, which weighed 160 crowns.] [Footnote 31: Dion Cass. lib. lxiii.] [Footnote 32: Ib. lib. lxvi.] [Footnote 33: Known locally as the _Porte Noire_, like the great _Porta Nigra_ at Treves, and other Roman gates in Gaul.] [Footnote 34: I should be inclined, from what I saw of the country, to go to the station of Baume-les-Dames on any future visit, and walk thence to the glacière, perhaps three leagues from the station.] [Footnote 35: He was in error. The Paris correspondent of the 'Times' gave, some months since (see the impression of Jan. 20, 1865), an account of an interesting trial respecting the manufacture of the liqueur peculiar to the Abbey of Grâce-Dieu. From this account it appears that the liqueur was formerly called the Liqueur of the |
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