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and rugged scenery and the vicinity of the caves is a 

 noted resort for pleasure seekers. 



The caves are designated, respectively, by the terms 

 "wet" and "dry, "the former being the smaller of the 

 two. Across the mouth of the Wet Cave a dam has 

 been built, and the water emerges from it with suffi- 

 cient force to turn the machinery of a distillery and 

 grist mill ; both abandoned, however, since their owner 

 died, a few years ago. The mouth of the cave is a 

 perfect archway in the solid limestone, fourteen fee 

 wide and eleven feet from roof to bottom. The water 

 behind the dam was two and a half feet in depth, and 

 deepened rapidly as one went back, and the cave was 

 explorable only by means of a boat, which was not at 

 my command. 



Dr. John Sloan of New Albany, Indiana, at one 

 time went up the stream in the Wet Cave for about 

 200 yards on a raft of timber, at which point rapids 

 were encountered, over which it was impossible to 

 lift the raft, and the water above being too deep to 

 wade, he was obliged to return. 



The Dry Cave was explored for a distance of 2,650 

 feet, beyond which it was impossible to proceed. The 

 entrance is larger than that of the Wet Cave, being 

 eighteen feet high and twenty feet wide. Back 100 

 feet it narrows to thirteen feet-in width, and, lifty feet 

 farther, to about eight feet, the water at this point cov- 

 ering the entire floor to a depth of six inches. For 

 the first 500 feet the main passage is very crooked, 

 but beyond that point it is comparatively straight and 

 extends in a general south-westerly direction. Like 

 Porter's Cave, it is a mere water-worn passage, with 



