CHAPTER III. 



LOCATION OF THE CAVE, MEANS OP APPROACH, AND CHAR- 

 ACTER OP THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY. — THE INDIAN 

 CAVE. — MAMMOTH CAVE HOTEL, ETC. 



The Mammoth Cave is situated in Edmonson 

 County, in the southern part of Kentucky. 



It is most readily approached from the North 

 by way of Louisville, by the Louisville & Nash- 

 ville Railroad, which has long since super- 

 seded the old stage-coaches. The distance from 

 Louisville is about ninety-five miles, or about 

 one-half the distance between that city and 

 Nashville. 



The station at which passengers left the rail- 

 road at the time of our visit is called Cave City, 

 a point about ten miles from the Cave. 



Visitors from the South come by way of Nash- 

 ville to the same point. The high-sounding 

 name of " City," as applied to this place, re- 

 minded us forcibly of the vest of the hero of 

 the comic song, which, he snid, — 



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