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spirits of the Caves were tolling a knell for the mighty dead sepulchred around and below. 

 Hut when lights are rekindled the sound is discovered to proceed from the clubs or 

 mace-like stalactites, whose lower extremities are hollow, and when struck by a piece of 



THE EXHIBITION, CATHEDRAL CAVE. 



soft rock produce 

 this peculiar effect. 

 The largest and 

 deepest-toned sends 

 a boom along the 

 corridor like the 

 sound of the great bell of an English minster, heard across miles of woodland. 



Let " The Helfry " ring farewell to " The Arch Cave," and pass out beneath the 

 mighty "Arch," where a great bough of a beautiful vine, white as jasmine and densely- 

 flowered as banksia rose, swings by the cliff-wall almost to the iron grating of the 

 entrance ; climb then to the upper opening, and look through the long valley of 

 Mackewan Creek, with its water-falls singing far below. From this point the valley 



