Lia THE MAMMOTH CAVE. 
feet high, placed there since the discovery of the 
Cave by white men, we next wonder how it 
could have been possible for a woman and child 
to have made this difficult ascent without the 
aid of a ladder, and, if possible, what object 
could have been in view sufficiently strong to 
have induced the woman with her infant to 
have surmounted such extraordinary obstacles? 
And, after overcoming all these difficulties, is it 
presumable that the woman and child should 
have continued to wander until they found two 
niches in the wall exactly adapted to their 
respective sizes, and they perhaps the only 
niches suited to the purpose in the Cave? 
We are somewhat surprised that Dr. Wright, 
the latest recognized authority in caveology, 
does not enter more into detail respecting this 
important subject, particularly as several of his 
predecessors in cave history have been much 
more minute in their accounts of the discovery 
and the disposition of the mummies. Not doubt- 
ing Dr. Wright’s conviction of the truth of the 
remarks that he has made upon the subject, we 
repeat that he, and others concerned, owe it as 
a duty to themselves to explain to the satisfac- 
tion of the public why the said bodies were re- 
moved from the position in which they were 
