CHAPTER XXI. 



PARTING REFLECTIONS. 



We now take our leave of that dark, "mys- 

 terious realm," a wiser, if not a better man. 



In the language of Professor Silliman, in the 

 same article before quoted from, "I wish all my 

 scientific friends could visit the Mammoth Cave ; 

 it teaches many lessons in a manner not to be 

 learned so well elsewhere, and in this respect I 

 was agreeably disappointed. I had heard that 

 its interest was chiefly scenic; but I found it 

 to exceed my utmost expectations as well in 

 its illustrations of geological truth as in the 

 wonderful character of its features. I will not 

 detain you," he continues, "with any attempts at 

 description of single parts, as no description can 

 awaken those peculiar and deep emotions which 

 a personal study of its details is calculated to 

 produce." 



In closing our narrative of the Cave we can- 

 not more appropriately conclude than by giving 



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