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having crossed the Quitupahilla, we came to a lime- 

 stone quarry in which there was a natural opening, 

 narrow and low, pointing towards the southeast. We 

 went up a few steps to a milk cellar which had been 

 installed at the entrance of the cave, for the con- 

 venience of the houses near-by. Thence the hole 

 wound away about 150 ft. towards the southwest ; there 

 was no going farther, because the cave continually 

 got narrower. The greatest height and breadth was 

 some 6 feet, and a few smaller cavities gave off at the 

 sides. The cave contains a quantity of stalactites, in 

 which our Doctor has discovered a new and powerful 

 antidote, news of which he has sent to Philadelphia. 

 He calcined, that is to say, these stalactites, and found 

 that the powder was as efficacious as Mercurius 

 praecipitatus in extreme cases ; and he told us repeat- 

 edly that he would not have disclosed this treasure to 

 merely anybody. Mr. Grubb's iron-works are known 

 throughout Pensylvania. We directed our way thither 

 but found neither the Colonel nor the Captain (father 

 and son) at home. They had gone to salt-water, that 

 is, to the sea coast ; a journey which the well to-do 

 living inland often make during the hot season, for 

 their pleasure and for the healthfulness of the baths. 

 In the absence of the owners, to whom I had letters, I 

 could find nobody who would take the trouble to give 

 us any information. These iron-works lie near to the 

 South Mountain and not far from Lebanon. Several 

 short and broken hills running in promiscuous direc- 

 tions are made up almost wholly of good rich ore 

 which lies shallow beneath the surface. To get out 

 this ore nothing whatever need be known of mining. 

 The ore is dug out of the hills quite as elsewhere pav- 



