CHAPTE RX XI, 
PARTING REFLECTIONS. 
WE now take our leave of that dark, “mys- 
terious realm,” a wiser, if not a better man. 
In the language of Professor Silliman, in the 
same article before quoted from, “I wish all my 
scientific friends could visit the Mammoth Cave ; 
it teaches many lessons in a manner not to be 
learned so well elsewhere, and in this respect I 
was agreeably disappointed. I had heard that 
its interest was chiefly scenic; but I found it 
to exceed my utmost expectations as well in 
its illustrations of geological truth as in the 
wonderful character of its features. I will not 
detain you,” he continues, “with any attempts at 
description of single parts, as no description can 
awaken those peculiar and deep emotions which 
a Bercaal study of its details is calculated to 
produce..’ | 
In closing our narrative of the Ger we can- 
not more appropriately conclude than by giving 
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