16 THE MAMMOTH CAVE. 
procure all that has been written on the subject, 
with the hope of thus making our account as 
complete as possible. We have, therefore, de- 
layed its publication for nearly three years. 
We have succeeded in obtaining four short 
articles, chiefly scientific, in as many different 
numbers of Silliman’s “American Journal of 
Science and Arts,” written by Professors Lock, 
Agassiz, Silliman, and Wyman,—the first dating 
back as far as 1842; also a rather lengthy — 
description given by our great American trav- 
eler, Bayard Taylor, who charmingly invests 
every sketch of Nature’s works touched by his 
pen with the glowing lght of romance, so 
appropriate in this case. 
We have also found a copy of a manual 
called “ Pictorial Guide to the Mammoth Cave, 
Kentucky. By the Rev. Horace Martin.” New 
York: Stringer & Townsend, 1851; with ten 
illustrations, pp. (including blanks for notes) 
116,—long out of print. A brief article on 
the Cave, in a book entitled “The Hundred 
Wonders of the World,” has recently been 
brought to our notice; also an article in 
Collins's “ History of Kentucky” (1847), and - 
a few pages in Dr. Poucher’s work on the 
Universe, etc., translated from the French, 
