THE MAMMOTH CAVE. 187 



finitely Small," by F. A. Poucher, M.D., Corre- 

 sponding Member of the Institute of France, 

 etc., translated from the French, illustrated, 

 and published by Charles Scribner & Co., New 

 York, 1870, has recently fallen under our notice 

 CMarch, 1870). The, character of the work is 

 not very definitely implied in the title; it is de- 

 signed as a popular natural history, and treats 

 of botany, zoology, ornithology, geology, etc. 

 Under the latter head five or six pages are de- 

 voted to an account of the Mammoth Cave. Of 

 the nature of the curiosity the author remarks : 



"The Mammoth Cave of the United States 

 owes its renown not to the celebrity of those who 

 have visited it, but to its extent, which is per- 

 haps greater than that of any other existing Cave." 



Again he says : 



"The Mammoth Cave is always an object of 

 great interest to the Americans. They go there 

 in crowds, and there is not always accommoda- 

 tion in the great hotel intended to receive the 

 tourists, although it is arranged for three hun- 

 dred guests.* 



* In the above paragraph the author commits two errors : 

 Americans do not go in crowds, as they should ; and the enter- 

 prising and gentlemanly proprietor of the hotel, Mr. L. J. Proc- 

 tor, has so far always been able to accommodate satisfactorily all 

 the crowds that have presented themselves. 



