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the product is said to be of the best quality. Nitre is 

 also found in the cave in great abundance, and sul- 

 phate of lime or plaster of paris." 



The mouth of Wyandotte Cave is located in Jen- 

 nings Township, Crawford County. The nearest rail- 

 way, the " Air Line," passes through Milltown, which 

 is nine miles distant from the cave, over an exceed- 

 ingly rough road. From Corydon, the county seat 

 of Harrison County, the distance is about twelve miles, 

 and the road a fair one for southern Indiana. This 

 route is a most pleasant drive in the summer or autumn, 

 and leads one down the romantic valley of Blue River. 

 For several miles the road follows along the limestone 

 bluff on the right side of that stream, in many places 

 having been excavated in the side of the bluff forty or 

 more feet from the water below. ^ From Leavenworth 

 on the Ohio River, the nearest point for steamers, the 

 distance is five miles. 



According to measurements made by Prof. Collett, 

 the Cave Hotel is 220 feet above Blue River, across 

 whose narrow valley "Greenbrier -Mountain, with 

 sharp, conical, peak and steep faces, belted with 

 massive rings of rock and variegated with evergreen 

 cedars, affords a scene of quiet, stately beauty." From 

 the hotel a pathway leads down a gradual slope to the 

 mouth of the cave 100 yards away. 



That portion of Wyandotte known previous to 1850 

 is at present called the "Old Cave," and will be first 

 described, since one must traverse a portion of it in 

 order to reach the entry of the "New Cave," discov- 

 ered in the year mentioned. 



