THE MAMMOTH CAVE. 107 
which assume the most remarkable forms. 
Now there are rows of broad, flat shelves 
overhanging your head; now you enter a little 
vestibule with friezes and mouldings of almost 
Doric symmetry and simplicity; and now you 
wind away into a Cretan Labyrinth, most 
uncouth and fantastic, whereof the Minotaur 
would be a proper inhabitant. It is a continual 
succession of surprises, and, to the appreciative 
visitor, of raptures.” 
We will specify the objects of interest in this 
avenue as they present themselves : 
1. Tur Hanerne Rocks look as though they 
were on the point of falling and closing the 
avenue over which they are suspended; but, 
as before stated, no rocks from the walls or 
ceiling have been known to fall in any part of 
the Cave since its discovery. 
2. THe FLy CHAMBER receives its name from 
the fact that crystals of black gypsum, of the 
size of a common house-fly, project in great 
numbers from the ceiling 
3. TABLE Rock is twenty feet long, and pro- 
jects from the left side of the avenue about ten 
feet. It is about two feet in thickness. 
4, Tur Crown is six feet in diameter, and is 
situated on the right side of the avenue, about 
