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The mummy is that of a stout woman nearly six feet in height, 

 though the whole materiel is so intensely dry as to weigh but 

 twenty pounds. 



It was found in the cavern at the distance of three miles from 

 its entrance. The figure appeared seated in a sort of rude sar- 

 cophagus composed of five limestone slabs ; the fifth stone 

 serving as a cover or entablature to the rest, exactly similar to 

 the ancient crorrilpchs still extant in various places of the British 

 islands. The knees had been brouj^ht close up to the body; — the 

 hands were clasped upon the lireast ; — the head, covered with 

 something like a coronet, was erect ; — and the whole figure was 

 muffled up and covered with a number of garments made of wild 

 hemp and willow bark. Several bags containing beads, trinkets, 

 and various handicraft implements were lying bv the body, with 

 a sort of work-basket, a curious musical instrument, and a fan 

 made of feathers a la Vandyke. 



The entrance of the cavern is finty feet high by thirty feet 

 wide, and for some years past saltpetre has been made and 

 oxen worked as far as two miles within it. A Mr. Ward has 

 recently explored this wonderful cavern to the extent of ten 

 miles. He savs that after having proceeded some miles they 

 ascended a vertical cliimney-like passage, and climbing up from 

 one stone to another about forty feet, they entered at midiiioht 

 a chamber 1800 feet in circumference, and 150 feet high in the 

 centre ! From this chamber they proceeded about a mile 

 further, and how much further they might have gone they knew 

 not. In another chamber which tiiev traversed, they were pre- 

 sented with a scene to wliich there is at present, perhaps, no 

 parallel in natural history — a single arch of solid rock 100 feet 

 high projecting over an area of not less than eight acres ! From 

 the observations which they made, they fully satisfied themselves 

 of this further astonishing fact, — that Green River, a mighty 

 stream navigable for several hundreds of miles, must necessarily 

 have passed over their heads in three different branches of the 

 cavern. 



h great many discoveries, it is added in the communication to 

 Mr. Cranch, have been made in Kentucky, which indicate the 

 existence at some very remote period of a state of society, arts, 

 and social habits far more advanced than any of the aboriginal 

 tribes hitherto Known have exhibited. 



A paper by Dr. Wilkinson On the Rise of Fluids in capillary 

 Tubes was afterwards read. Its object was to show that the 

 experiments on this subject do not accord with the theoretic 

 calculations of Professor Atwood of Cambridge, and other philo- 

 sophers ; — that the results do not correspond with any fixed rule, 

 but are entirely dependent on certain conditions of the tube ; 



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