142 GLEANINGS FROM NATURE. 



THE OLD CAVE. 



The entrance of Wyandotte is twenty feet wide and 

 six feet high ; the roof arched, the floor of earth, with 

 here and there a fallen slab of rock. For perhaps 100 

 feet we descended gradually and entered a spacious 

 corridor known as "Faueuil Hall," forty feet wide, 

 eighteen feet high, and probably 180 feet in length. 

 Across the farther end of this hall a stone wall has 

 been built and a doorway constructed, and through 

 this one passes into " Twilight Hall,'' where the last 

 rays of daylight disappear and the King of Darkness 

 begins his reign. Here we stopped a few moments to 

 accustom our eyesight to the changed conditions. 

 Passing onward we soon entered the "Columbian 

 Arch," an almost perfect semi-cylindrical tunnel, 

 seventy-five feet in length. From this we emerged 

 into " Washington Avenue," a grand passage-way, 275 

 feet long, thirty feet wide and forty feet high. Near 

 the farther end is "Falling Rock," a huge mass of 

 limestone, resting partly on edge, 33x16x14 J feet in 

 dimensions, and weighing, therefore, about 535 tons. 

 Ages ago it fell from the roof and assumed its present 

 position ; one which earthquakes have failed to 

 change, but which appears dangerous to the average 

 visitor who passes beneath its towering form. 



Within Washington Avenue a peculiar pungent 

 odor became noticeable, and inquiry as to its source 

 brought information from the guide that in 1884 cer- 

 tain gentlemen from Evansville attempted to corner 

 the onion jndustry of southern Indiana by buying up 

 all the onion sets produced that season. Wishing a 



