166 THE MAMMOTH CAVE. 
picturesque and elegant, and I did not regret the 
trouble I had taken to reach it.” 
To show the similarity of the impressions pro- 
duced upon different individuals by these novel 
and remarkable sights, we quote from the “Vis- 
itor,” who, in turn, quotes from Mr. Lee: 
“ Returning from the Fairy Grotto, we entered 
the Main Cave at the Cataract, and continued 
our walk to the Chief City, or Temple, which is 
thus described by Lee, in his ‘Notes on the 
Mammoth Cave’: 
“<The Temple is an immense vault covering 
an area of two acres, and covered by a single 
dome of solid rock, one hundred and twenty feet 
high. It excels in size the Cave of Staffa; and 
rivals the celebrated vault in the Grotto of An- 
tiparos, which is said to be the largest in the 
world. In passing through from one end to the 
other, the dome appears to follow ike the sky in 
passing from place to place on the earth. In the 
middle of the dome there is a large mound of 
rocks rising on one side, nearly to the top, very 
steep, and forming what is called the Mountain. 
When first 1 ascended this mound from the Cave 
below I was struck with a feeling of awe more 
deep and intense than anything that I had ever 
before experienced. I could only observe the 
