HUNTING IN THE INTERIOR OF SELANGORE. 



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tion of the party who will keep a stand there for the sale of refresh- 

 ments, photographs, and torches to the touiists who will visit the 

 cave during the next century. 



On entering the cave at the yawning black hole, we found our- 

 selves in a grand cathedral, whose floor, walls, and roof were of 

 smooth white Umestone rock. Descending for a few yards from 

 the mouth we came to a clear stream of water ripphng across the 

 rocky floor and seeking an exit near the mouth. Crossing this, we 



walked forward along a grand gallery, with clean and level floor, 

 perpendicular walls and gothic roof, like the nave of a cathedral, 

 fifty feet wide and sixty feet high. At the farther end of the gal- 

 lery — which was by our estimate about three hundred feet in length 

 — the roof suddenly rose in a great round dome ninety or a hun- 

 dred feet in height, completing so perfectly the resemblance of St. 

 Peter's, at Rome, that had I the privilege of naming the cavern I 

 could call it nothing else than Cathedral Cave. The accompanying 

 diagram represents a vertical section, as nearly as could be ob- 

 tained without measurements. 



"We stood for some time gazing in silence aboiit us, quite awed 

 by the grandeur of the natural rock-temple we had discovered. 



Remembering the Baptistry at Pisa, and, recalling its beautiful 

 echo, I sang out clear and strong. 



m 



Sol mi do. 



The echo of the three notes mingled directly in a beautiful chord, 

 wonderfully prolonged, like the sound of three voices winging their 

 way upward until they were lost in the distance. The illusion was 



