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GLEANINGS FROM NATURE. 



tains the "Elephant's Head," 

 "Bridal Curtains" and other 



2. 



Grand Entrance 

 Hall. 

 Cut Off. 



3. Congress Hall. 



4. Mammoth Hall. 



5. Elks' Hall. 



6. Music Hall. 



7. Cave Hill Cemetery. 



8. Creeping Ave. 



9. Junction Room. 



10. Fairy Palace. 



11. Prison Cell. 



12. Prison Bars. 



13. Washington Ave. 



14. Lovers' Retreat. 



"Folded Lambrequin," 

 fantastic formations of 

 carbonate of lime, 

 wrought in dark- 

 ness in the ages 

 past. 



Beyond Mam- 

 moth Hall the 

 passage divides 

 and passes around 

 a mass of unerod- 

 ed limestone. The 

 branch on the 

 right rises ten or 

 fifteen feet above 

 the level of the 

 main floor and en- 

 larges into " Elks' 

 Hall," a room 190 

 feet long and 

 twenty feet high. 

 Beyond this hall 

 the two branches 

 soon unite and at 

 a distance of 1,000 

 feet from the en- 

 trance enlarge in- 

 to "Music Hall," 

 a large room con- 



taining a raised platform of rock, known as the 

 " Band Stand." A short distance farther on, a branch 

 goes off to the left which has been explored only by 



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Crawford COL 



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 /nd 



15. Nameless Pass. 



16. Crystal Palace. 



17. Crystal Palace Gal- 



lery. 



18. Pillared Palace. 



19. "Western Ave. 



Entrance 



