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Of a less imaginative but more sig- 

 nificant character to some of us are 

 such features as Audubon Avenue, 

 Eafinesque Hall, Putnam's Cabinet, 

 Hovey's Cathedral, Jenny Lind's Arm- 

 chair, Ole Bull's Concert Hall, and 

 Booth's Amphitheater— the lists might 

 be extended indefinitelv. 



Among the most interesting discoveries of Indian relics in the 

 Kentucky caverns were a number of neatly braided sandals 

 found in Salts Cave in 1893. Some are made of the fiber of the 

 cat-tail, others are woven of the inner bark of trees, and still 

 others of wild hemp. They display several distinct forms of 

 braiding as well as occasional ornamental tassels. Other inter- 

 esting finds in the caves are half -burned torches made of bundles 

 of cane, stone pestles and axes, bone awls, implements of shell, 

 and parts of gourd vessels. Courtesy of John P. Morton d- Com- 

 pany, Louisville 



There are other natural wonders in 

 Kentucky. We have mentioned two 

 rivers only; but probalily no equivalent 

 territory in the world is better served 

 by navigable waterways. Perhaps the 

 overland routes may have been corre- 

 spondingly wanting; but the bison 

 came into the country in late prehis- 

 toric times and many of his 

 ti-ails connecting river fords, 

 saltlicks, springs, and open 

 grasslands, have since served 

 both the Indian and the 

 white man as avenues of 

 communication. The salt- 

 licks are of especial interest. 

 They are swampy places 

 where salt exudes from the 

 ground, and thousands of 

 animals, representative of 

 species both living and ex- 

 tinct, coming here to lick the 

 cartli. have been mired and 

 their l)ones left secure for 

 the future paleeontologist. 



Into this wonderland 

 came the Indian long ago — 

 we cannot yet say when or 

 how or wherefrom. He lived 

 in the caverns and on the 

 Iiilltops, he erected mounds 

 and villages, he cultivated 

 the soil, and he burnt thou- 

 sands of square miles of the 

 natural forest, turning it 

 into grassland to entice the 

 bulfalo; and then — after a 

 time — he seems to have 

 gone away again. The rea- 

 son for his departure is 

 something of a mystery; 

 but, judging from the ac- 

 counts of Spanish, French, 

 and English explorers dur- 

 ing the century preceding 

 the American Eevolution, 

 the heart of Kentuckv was 



