This shortly brought them to a bewitching spring, whose basin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering crystals; it was in the midst of a cavern whose walls were supported by many fantastic pillars which had been formed by the joining of great stalactites and stalagmites together, the result of the ceaseless water-drip of centuries.
Es trobava en mig d'una caverna, els murs de la qual eren sostinguts per un bell nombre de columnes fantastiques que havien estat formades per la unió de grans estalactites i estalagmites, resultat del gotejar mai estroncat en les centúries.