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guides, the ceiling being low and the scenery pos- 

 sessing no especial interest. 



Fourteen hundred feet from the entrance the main 

 passage again forks, the right branch containing " Cave 

 Hill Cemetery/' Herein are found some beautiful 

 stalagmites and pillars, one of which, called " Wash- 

 ington's Monument," is among the most striking 

 objects of the cave. Its height is four feet, eleven 

 inches, and a foot above the base it is two feet in cir- 

 cumference. Composed of the clearest of crystalline 

 limestone, it stands with its white surface gleaming 

 in the dim lantern light, inspiring the visitor with a 

 feeling of wonder as to how an object of such beauty 

 and purity could have been formed in these depths of 

 Cimmerian darkness. Another monument of greater 

 size, but less imposing on account of its yellowish- 

 brown color, is the "Tower of Babel" ten feet high 

 and six feet, eight inches in circumference. It stands 

 among numerous smaller stalagmites, a short distance 

 beyond Washington's Monument. 



Beyond the tower of Babel the roof of the rigrht 



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branch lowers, and it is necessary to crawl through a 

 narrow opening and then creep or stoop for quite a 

 distance through "Creeping Avenue," passing mean- 

 while among many pillars, stalagmites and stalactites, 

 varied in form and beautiful to look upon. Emerging 

 from this avenue we stood erect in the "Junction 

 Room" 2,000 feet from the cave entrance, and at the 

 point where the branch which turned to the left at 

 the entrance to the Cave Hill Cemetery meets the 

 right branch through which we have traveled. Beyond 

 this point the cave narrows and the roof comes down 



