16 THE MAMMOTH CAVE. 



procure all that has been written on the subject, 

 with the hope of thus making our account as 

 complete as possible. We have, therefore, de- 

 layed its publication for nearly three years. 



We have succeeded in obtaining four short 

 articles, chiefly scientific, in as many different 

 numbers of Silliman's "American Journal of 

 Science and Arts," written by Professors Lock, 

 Agassiz, Silliman, and Wyman, — the first dating 

 back as far as 1842 ; also a rather lengthy 

 description given by our great American trav- 

 eler. Bayard Taylor, who charmingly invests 

 every sketch of Nature's works touched by his 

 pen with the glowing light of romance, so 

 appropriate in this case. 



We have also found a copy of a manual 

 called " Pictorial Guide to the Mammoth Cave, 

 Kentucky. By the Rev. Horace Martin." New 

 York : Stringer & Townsend, 1851 ; with ten 

 illustrations, pp. (including blanks for notes) 

 116, — long out of print. A brief article on 

 the Cave, in a book entitled " The Hundred 

 Wonders of the World," has recently been 

 brought to our notice ; also an article in 

 Collins's "History of Kentucky" (1847), and 

 a few pages in Dr. Boucher's work on the 

 Universe, etc., translated from the French, 



