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_ openings in the ordinary cane-seated chair, about 
half an inch in depth, and arranged in regular 
lines. ‘This rock, we are informed, was exca- 
vated near the Cave about twenty years ago. 
No explanation was offered as to the probable 
cause of the perforations, but we were left to 
infer, from their perfect regularity, that they 
were produced by human agency. Perhaps some 
rude Indian artist, hundreds of years ago, is 
entitled to the credit of exciting our curiosity 
at the present day. 
We learned at the hotel that the Mammoth 
Cave and the Cave Hotel belonged jointly to 
nine or ten parties, to whom it had been devised 
by its former proprietor, Dr. Crogan, for a period 
of ninety-nine years. Only about twenty-five 
years of the time have yet expired. 
It seems to be regarded by the public as an 
unfortunate disposition of the property, that so 
many parties should be concerned in the owner- 
ship. Owing to their diverse views, the Cave 
travel is not so easy nor so agreeable to visitors 
as it might be made with trifling expenditure. 
It is said that some of the proprietors are 
anxious to do one thing, some another, and 
some nothing. Being unable to agree, nothing 
is done; and visitors are compelled to undergo 
