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which assume the most remarkable forms. 

 Now there are rows of broad, flat shelves 

 overhanging your head ; now you enter a little 

 vestibule with friezes and mouldings of almost 

 Doric symmetry and simplicity; and now you 

 wind away into a Cretan Labyrinth, most 

 uncouth and fantastic, whereof the Minotaur 

 would be a proper inhabitant. It is a continual 

 succession of surprises, and, to the appreciative 

 visitor, of raptures." 



We will specify the objects of interest in this 

 avenue as they present themselves : 



1. The Hanging Rocks look as though they 

 were on the point of falUng and closing the 

 avenue over which they are suspended ; but, 

 as before stated, no rocks from the walls or 

 ceiling have been known to fall in any part of 

 the Cave since its discovery. 



2. The Fly Chamber receives its name from 

 the fact that crystals of black gypsum, of the 

 size of a common house-fly, project in great 

 numbers from the ceiling 



3. Table Rock is twenty feet long, and pro- 

 jects from the left side of the avenue about ten 

 feet. It is about two feet in thickness. 



4. The Crown is six feet in diameter, and is 

 situated on the right side of the avenue, about 



