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came out healthy, and had a beautiful gloss, 

 with shining faces and skins. 



"After the War of 1812-14 it was no longer 

 profitable to make saltpetre at the Cave, on 

 account of the importation of the East Indian 

 article in the Eastern market, at rates much 

 cheaper than it could be wagoned from the 

 Cave. 



"When Messrs. Gratz & Wilkins ceased to 

 make saltpetre, after having acquired sixteen 

 hundred and ten acres of land over and around 

 the Cave, they continued their faithful, true, 

 and honest agent, Miller, to overlook and take 

 care of the property and to show the Cave to 

 the curious. About the year 1816, Mr. Miller 

 placed the Cave and other property in the 

 possession of his brother-in-law, Mr. Moore, and 

 his wife, hoth Irish, of the old stock. Mr. Moore 

 had been wealthy, and a large merchant in 

 Philadelphia. Unfortunately, he was seduced 

 into unlawful acts by Blennerhassett, the friend 

 of Burr, and was pecuniarily ruined. The 

 Moores left there some time afterward, when 

 Gatewood took possession, and showed the 

 Cave to all visitors for years; but it did not 

 pay, and he left. 



"In 1837 I purchased the Cave and prop- 



