170 GLEANINGS FROM NATURE. 



Once more bowing our heads to the inevitable, \ve 

 'rnwled, squirmed, rolled and pulled ourselves through 

 Worm Alley back into the main cave. Following our 

 guide, we passed on through "Josephine's Arcade." 

 where a silhouette of the " Cave Queen," formed by 

 the falling away of the white gypsum from the 

 darker limestone, greets us from the wall. "Indiana 

 University Chapel" and the "Ball Room" succeeded 

 and brought us to the "Junction Room" of the Long 

 Route. Here the cave forks, one branch leading to 

 the south-west and the other continuing northward to 

 "Crawfish Spring" and " Wabash Avenue." Taking 

 the latter, we found it to be made up of a succession 

 of halls, galleries and avenues, each with its own fan- 

 ciful name and pleasing peculiarities, yet no place 

 worthy of more than passing- notice when taken in 

 contrast with the grand scenes already described. 



In several places between the Junction Room and 

 Crawfish Spring the first explorers of the Long Route 

 found tracks of a small party of Indians who had 

 wandered to and fro in that region. They had evi- 

 dently entered by some opening as yet unknown; 

 since the Auger Hole, now the only means of entrance, 

 was, when first discovered, entirely too small for the 

 passage of a man. It is better, in my opinion, to con- 

 sider that their means of entrance and exit has since 

 been covered by fallen rock or, like that through Fat 

 Man's Misery, was hidden purposely by those ancient 

 explorers, than to take the ground, as has been done, 

 that the tracks were made 1,800 or 2,000 years ago, 

 before the opening of the Auger Hole was so nearly 

 closed as to prevent the passage of a man. These 



