_The Frozen Horn._--Perhaps it is not generally known that the writer of
_Munchausen's Travels_ borrowed this amusing incident from Heylin's
_Mikrokosmos_. In the section treating of Muscovy, he says:--
"This excesse of cold in the ayre, gave occasion to _Castilian_,
in his _Aulicus_, wittily and not incongruously to faine that if
two men being smewhat distant, talke together in the winter,
their words will be so frozen that they cannot be heard: but if
the parties in the spring returne to the same place, their words
will melt in the same order that they were frozen and _spoken_,
and be plainly understood."