CTEA PEER TTL 
LOCATION OF THE CAVE, MEANS OF APPROACH, AND CHAR- # 
ACTER OF THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY.—THE INDIAN 
CAVE.—MAMMOTH CAVE HOTEL, ETC. 
THe Mammoth Cave is situated in Edmonson 
County, in the southern part of Kentucky. 
It is most readily approached from the North 
by way of Louisville, by the Louisville & Nash- 
ville Railroad, which has long since super- 
seded the old stage-coaches. The distance from 
Louisville is about ninety-five miles, or about 
one-half the distance between that city and 
Nashville. 
The station at which passengers left the rail- 
road at the time of our visit is called Cave City, 
a point about ten miles from the Cave. 
Visitors from the South come by way of Nash- 
ville to the same point. The high-sounding 
name of “City,” as applied to this place, re- 
minded us forcibly of the vest of the hero of 
_ the comic song, which, he said,— 
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