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lofty arch, all of solid® rock, appears perfectly in sight. Not 
‘one in a thousand can forbear to make an involuntary pause : 
ut servant, who had hitherto followed his master, without 
meeting with any thing particularly to arrest his attention, had 
no sooner arrived at this point, and caught a glance of the ob- 
= ject which burst upon his vision, than he fell upon his knees, 
fixed in wonder and admiration. 
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3. I will next mention a singular cave, which I do not re- 
member ever to hay described. It is situated in the — 
Cherokee country, at. icojack, the north-west angle in the 
map of Georgia, and is known by the name of the Nicojack 
cave. It is 20 miles S. W. of the Look-Out mountain, and half 
a mile from the south bank of the Tennessee River. The 
Xackoon mountaiif’ in which it is situated, here fronts to the 
northeast. Immense layers of horizontal limestone form @ 
_ precipice of considerable hight. In this precipice the cave 
commences: not however with an opening of a few feet, as is 
common; but with a mouth fifty feet high, and one hundred and 
sixty wide. Its roof is formed by a solid and regular layer of | 
limestone, having no support but the sides of the cave, and as 
level as the floor of a house. The entrance is partly obstructed 
by piles of fallen rocks, which appear to have been dislodged 
“by some great convulsion. From its entrance, the cave com 
sists chiefly of one grand excavation through the rocks, pre- 
serving for a great distance the same dimensions as at its mouth. 
What is more remarkable than all, it forms for the whole 
distance it has yet been explored, a walled and vaulted passages 
for a stream of cool and limpid water, which, where it leaves 
the cave, is six feet deep and sixty feet wide. A few yea 
since, Col. James Ore of Tennessee, commencing early in the 
morning, followed the course of this creek in a canoe, for three 
miles. He then came toa fall of water, and was obliged to 
return, without making any further discovery. ’ Whether he 
_ penetrated three miles up the cave or not, it is a fact he did 
not return till the evening, having been busily engaged in his 
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