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passed through the "Journal Office," near the farther 

 end of which is the "Bishop's Rostrum," a high plat- 

 form of rock, 8x10 feet in dimensions, from which por- 

 tions of many a sophomoric oration, as well as several 

 divine dissertations, have, in the past, heen delivered. 



"Calypso's Island" is a large mass of unerodcd 

 limestone, on both sides of which the. old cave stream 

 has forced a passage. The floor of the passage to the 

 left of the "Island" resounded our footsteps in a pecu- 

 liar echoing fashion, suggesting the presence of a 

 low r er passage beneath our feet. The two wings of 

 the main passage converge at the farther end of 

 Calypso's Island and expand into the " Cserulean 

 Vault," a room 40 feet wide by 20 feet high. This 

 narrows into "Rugged Pass," from the side of which 

 a narrow cleft in the rock leads by an ascending, very 

 low and tortuous passage, know r n as " Worm Alley," 

 into "Milroy's Temple." 



This is a room 100 x 150 feet in dimensions, around 

 the upper edge of which are found some of the most 

 handsome formations in the cave. One of them is a 

 row of musical stalactites, broad and thin, on which 

 a melody can be played by a skillful hand. There 

 are also creamy stalactites, vermicular tubes strangely 

 intertwined, convoluted roots, mural gardens and 

 galleries, gay and grotesque. A deep pit, the bottom 

 of which is sixty feet or more below the entrance, is 

 found in one side of the room, and the sound of a 

 stream of water falling from a cleft in the ceiling and 

 splashing on the rocks at the bottom of the pit was a 

 pleasing break to the monotonous silence of the vast 

 rooms through \\hich we had come. 



