OBSERVATIONS ON TYPHLOMOLGE RATHBUNI. 



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tightly packed rocks and masses of 

 gravel make further penetration im- 

 possible at present and that the lo- 

 cation of both caves and the direc- 

 tion of their main axes are not in 

 favor of the statement mentioned 

 above. 



The deepest depression in the 

 bottom of Beaver Cave is found in 

 the room indicated in the diagram 

 Fig. nas" Weil-Room." The bot- 

 tom of this floor is 62 feet below 

 the surface and therefore at a level 

 of 590 feet above sea level. As seen 

 from the height of the water level 

 in Johnson's Well and in Ezell's 

 Cave, no water of the Purgatory 

 Creek System should be present in 

 Beaver Cave. And in fact when 

 the cave was discovered there was 

 no water found. But a well drill- 

 ing made at that time from the sur- 

 face above the Well Room had in- 

 dicated the presence of water only 

 a few feet beneath the bottom of 

 the Well Room. Therefore, a hole 

 was dug in the bottom of the Well 

 Room which led to water at a depth 

 of about 3 feet or at the same level 

 as the surface of the water in Ezell's 

 Cave and Frank Johnson's Well 

 (see Fig. 13). 



At present one finds in the Well 

 Room of Beaver Cave a rectangular 

 basin approximately 6 feeet in 

 length, 3 feet in width and 6 feet in 

 depth, the bottom of which is cov- 

 ered with mud and rocks, and the 

 walls of which are lined with logs. 



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