Not-ice! Wonderful phenomenon! Murphy outdone! - Awful prediction! Great thaw of the Artificial Ice! 3000 square feet in extent. Baker Street Bazaar, King Street, Portman Square. The proprietor of the Glaciarium feels it his duty to apprize the public that, the Metropolis will assuredly be visited on Thursday, the 25th of January, 1844, with the most Extraordinary Thaw ever witnessed in this country or any other ...the beautiful Lake of Lucerne is now fast frozen ... "dissolve - and, like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wreck behind". ... sledges on the frozen lake ... promenade musicale, led by Mr A Sedgwick. ... S G Fairbrother, printer, 31, Bow Street, Covent Garden [1844]