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the dome is seventy feet from the floor, the extreme width at the centre is two 

 hundred feet. All along the southern side is an immense pile of fallen rocks ; on the 

 right is one huge mass forty feet in length, twenty in height, and averaging twenty in 

 thickness- a portion of the outer edge of its summit distantly resembles a pulpit-rail, 

 hence probably its name, "The Pulpit." Immediately behind "The Pulpit" is "The 

 Organ," a shallow cavity in the wall of the cavern, where stalactites and stalagmites 

 have met and formed a front resembling the pipes of an organ. Farther round are 

 rock-faces from which the masses on the floor would seem to have been rent away by 

 direct cleavage not water-torn, but singularly weather-stained ; and the roof is a marvel ! 

 All over it, all over the inner-arch of such a dome as would cap St. Peter's, immense 

 masses of rock seem literally to hang. They resemble a drooping skirt of gigantic 



THE ARCH CAVE, LOOKING NORTH. 



garments, fossilized, turned into a dull gray stone, which, impregnated with iron and 

 copper, has assumed mysterious tints and blends of dark red and green. Wherever an 

 open space is left, it is quaintly mottled with mildew, and over all there is gloom, 

 perpetual shadow, mystery, a sentiment of the nether world. It is the Hall of Eblis, 



