CHAPTER XVI. 



proctor's arcade. KIXNET's arena. WRIGHT'S RO- 

 TUNDA. — FAIRY GROTTO. — THE CHIEF CITY, AND GREAT 

 CROSSINGS. 



Proctor's Arcade, which is entered imme- 

 diately beyond the Star Chamber, is, says Dr. 

 Wright, the most magnificent natural tunnel in 

 the world. It is a hundred feet in width, forty- 

 five in height, and three-quarters of a mile in 

 length. The ceiling is smooth, and the walls 

 vertical, and look as though they had been 

 chiseled out of the solid rock. 



AVhen this tunnel is illuminated with a Bengal- 

 light at Kinney's Arena, which is its western 

 terminus, the view is magnificent beyond con- 

 ception. This arcade is named in honor of Mr. 

 L. J. Proctor, the proprietor of the Cave Hotel. 



Kinney's Arena is a hundred feet in diameter 

 and fifty feet in height. From the ceiling, in the 

 center of the Arena, there projects a stick, three 

 feet in length and two inches in diameter. It 

 rests parallel with the ceiling, and is inserted 

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