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science; and yet when cpmpared with the dome 
of this Temple, they sink into comparative insig- 
nificance. Such is the surpassing grandeur of 
Nature’s works.’ 
“To us,” adds “ Visitor,” “the Temple seemed 
to merit the glowing description above given ; 
but what would Lee think, on being told that 
since the discovery of the rivers, and the world 
of beauties beyond them, not one person in fifty 
visits the Temple or the Fairy Grotto; they 
are now looked upon as tame and uninter- 
esting.”* 
From these justly-merited descriptions of this 
portion of the Cave the reader may form some 
conception of the surpassing beauty and mag- 
nificence of other parts, when informed, as 
above, that the Chief City is now very rarely 
visited. 
From the Chief City to the end of the Main 
Cave, a distance of three miles, there are 
several points at which the appearance which 
this avenue presented when filled with running 
water may be observed, where the overhanging 
cliffs closely resemble those in the Pass of El 
Ghor, of recent formation. 
* Rambles, etc., pp. 55, 56, 57. 
