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rocietetices in Kentucky. Beetle the caverns have 
been the habitation of wild b: r ities of 
er 
c it does not a probable, 
animal matter could bee filtrated through a roof of rock, 
perhaps forty or fifiy feet in thickness.’ 
Dr. Brown pavotes a passage from Barrow’s tee a 
part of which we here repeat. 
“There was also in the same cave, (with the nitre,) 
running down the sides of the rock, a black substance t 
was apparently blest The peasants call it the urine 
fthe d ung of this gregarious animal was lying 
upon the roof oft the cavern to the amount of many waggon | 
loads. The putrid animal matter, filtrating through the ~ 
rock, contributed no doubt to the formation of the nitre. 
he hepatic well and the native nitre rocks were in the 
division of Agster poiee sheaal (South Africa,) which joins _ 
the Tacka to the south-west.” Barrow’s Trave ze 
To the same point, in eet to the American caves 
quote the following paragraph from Rev. ornelius’ 
count of the cave at Nicojack, in - Chérekes count 
as given Vol. 1, p. 321 of this Jour j 
* The sides of the principal aoiape present a 4 
apartments which are ee principally because the 
furnish large quantities of the earth from which the nitrat 
of potas 
a E: 
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Niceiack, it abounds, and is” 
fallen rocks, but in more a 
ies two kinds, one is cal] 
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ive at Kuhlock, Mr. Bi 
black animal dust beneath a diluvial sedime 
ous loam, which had been eee by: by diggi 1 
was mixed with the black h. Now is the 
dirt”? 2M. Comal mentions, but this luvial odie Pn 
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