MAMMOTH CAVE OF KENTUCKY. 



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give them. The most remarkable, perhaps, is the Mammoth 

 Cave of Kentucky. The entrance to it is situated near Green 



River, midway between 



Louisville and Nashville. 



A lonely road leads to the 



entrance, from which, as 



we approach it in summer, 



we find a peculiarly chilly 



air issue forth. The som- 

 bre gloom of the entrance 



does not prepare us for 



the enormous hall within; 



long avenues leading into 



jvast chambers, the smaller, 



thirty feet in height, at 



least, with an area of half 



an acre, and, as we get 



lowei" and lower, increas- 

 ing in height. Upwards 



of eighteen miles of the 



cavern have been explored, 



and it may possibly be of 



still greater extent. To 



give an idea of the height 



of one of the chambers, we 



may add that the rocks 



from above have fallen, 



and a hill has been formed 



one hundred feet in eleva- 

 tion. Many of the halls are ornamented with the most 

 magnificent stalactites. One of them is appropriately called 



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FYKLESS FISH- 

 FRONT VIEW. 



EYELESS FISH — 

 SIDE VIEW. 



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