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."