THE MAMMOTH CAVE. 187 
finitely Small,” by F. A. Poucher, M.D., Corre 
sponding Member of the Institute of France, 
ete., translated from the French, illustrated, 
and published by Charles Scribner & Co., New 
York, 1870, has recently fallen under our notice 
(March, 1870). The character of the work is 
not very definitely implied in the title; it is de- 
signed as a popular natural history, and treats 
of botany, zoology, ornithology, geology, ete. 
Under the latter head five or six pages are de- 
voted to an account of the Mammoth Cave. Of 
the nature of the curiosity the author remarks: 
“The Mammoth Cave of the United States 
owes its renown not to the celebrity of those who 
have visited it, but to its extent, which is per- 
haps greater than that of any other existing Cave.” 
Again he says: 
“The Mammoth Cave is always an object of 
great interest to the Americans. They go there 
in crowds, and there is not always accommoda- 
tion in the great hotel intended to receive the 
tourists, although it is arranged for three hun- 
dred guests.* 
* In the above paragraph the author commits two errors: 
Americans do not go in crowds, as they should; and the enter- 
prising and gentlemanly proprietor of the hotel, Mr. L. J. Proc- 
tor, has so far always been able to accommodate satisfactorily all 
the crowds that have presented themselves. 
