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TUNNEL CAVE (22) 



A fourth of a mile from the Bat Cave is a natural tunnel or under- 

 fjround passage which has its beginning in a deep sink hole half a 

 mile away on the farther side of the hill. Into this depression 

 pours all the water that comes through a ravine more than 4 miles 

 long, receiving several tributaries on the way ; thus draining several 

 hundred acres of steep hillsides from which storm water runs off 

 almost as quickly as from a roof. From the sink hole it passes into 

 the upper end of the tunnel, an opening 10 feet high and 20 feet wide. 

 Trash and drift around this inlet show that the water rises above 

 its top. 



The lower opening of the tunnel is a beautiful, regular arch, 100 

 feet wide and 50 feet high. For some distance in, the interior is so 

 choked with huge rocks, which reach almost to the roof near one side 

 at the front, that it resembles a great quarry. Gravel, sand, and 

 driftwood, including a large log 15 feet long, are piled on these rocks 

 to a height of 20 feet. 



BROOKS CAVE 



Brooks Cave, 11 miles southeast of Waynesville, has an entrance 

 through a sink hole in a level field. It is small and dark for some 

 distance back, and was never occupied. 



Openings of this character are never the original mouths of 

 caverns; they are due to the roof falling in at a point where it has 

 become thin by wearing away from below. 



RIDDLE CAVE 



Riddle Cave is on John W. Schord's farm, near Wildwood. The 

 entrance is through a sink, similar to that at Brooks Cave, and is 

 due to the same causes. It could never have been occupied. 



lane's CA\'E 



Somewhat more than a mile north of Big Piney post office is a cave 

 known as Lane's Cave. Near it is a smaller cave; also a rock shelter. 

 They are all small, high up in the cliff, hard to reach, and unsuitable 

 for living in. 



DRY CREEK CAVE 



A cave on Dry Creek, north of Lane's Cave, is small and almost in- 

 accessible. Never used. 



HOUSE MOUNDS (2.S) 



There is a group of house mounds, about 100 in number, close to 

 the site of the " Ranch House," which formerly stood near '" The 



