206 THE MAMMOTH CAVE. 
induced him to take this fearful “leap in the 
dark.” ise 
After passing down a very precipitous bank, 
some thirty or forty feet on the left side of 
Lover's Leap, we enter a narrow avenue, very 
properly termed the Elbow Crevice. This 
avenue, though not more than from three to 
five feet wide, is fifty feet high, and twenty 
feet in length. It is another Fat Man’s Misery, 
on an enlarged scale. 
Gatewood’s Dining-Table is a flat rock which 
has been detached from the ceiling. It is about 
twelve feet long and eight wide, and is named 
after one of the former proprietors. 
Next we reach Napoleon’s Dome, which is 
fifty feet high, and from twenty to thirty wide. 
It was formed in the same manner as, and very 
much resembles, Corinna’s Dome, in the Pass of 
Kl Ghor. 
A pool of perfectly transparent water, called 
Lake Purity, is situated directly under Vulcan’s 
Smithy; large amounts of the cinder-like for- 
mations are to be seen in and around the minia- 
ture lake. Many small stalagmites are found 
in the bottom of the pool, which is quite 
shallow. By the aid of the guidé we suc- 
