Nov. 7, 1884.] 



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1 Lolly Cave. 2. Nelly's Grotto, Imperial Cave. 3. Lucinda's Columns. 4. Columns, Nettle Cave. 



5. The Shawl Cave. 6. Crystal Salt Pass. 



glass-blower, as if a member of that craft had traversed it I not snow, but a soft fungus or down closely resembling it :. 



_.., , ,, i.__ -_j i,_j :_ .1 1 J «„„i,; — A „^i;ta o few mimitpa' fall of snow. IS the graauai 



with a portable apparatus, and tad in a haphazard fashion 

 practised his art here and there in the most whimsical 

 places, on walls, stalactites, in niches, on the arch under 

 one's feet, and on the dome 50 ft. above. 



In some places our attention was attracted to side floors, 

 apparently thickly strewn with potatoes or turnips, covered 

 by a half-inch of what appeared newly fallen snow. It is 



and, unlike a few minutes' fall of snow, is the gradual 

 growth or decay of ages, no doubt the product of dis- 

 integrated carbonates, the potatoes being concretionary 

 nodules, probably formed from the same substance. Near 

 these and at other places the walls present the appearance 

 of an irregular patchy Beton concrete work, or the white- 

 washed dab plastering to be met with on the outside walls 



