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than 40 feet high, to a rocky shelf, beyond which the descent was 

 followed some yards without finding any indications that a level 

 bottom was near. It is another illustration of the fallen roof. 



Wynne's Ca\'e. — Three miles south of Rowlett's Station is a large 

 sink hole. Stones thrown into the vertical shaft at the bottom can 

 be heard striking the sides for three or four seconds before coming 

 to rest. 



Wash. Rowlett Cave. — On "the old Lewis Martin place," 1| 

 miles west of Rowlett's Station, a section of roof, 20 or 25 feet across, 

 has dropped into a deep cavity. The sides are still insecure. The 

 descent to a spring under what appears to be the original roof is 

 somewhat more than 40 feet. The ceiling is not more than 6 feet 

 high. 



Steffy's Cave. — Four miles southwest of Munfordville between 

 200 and 300 feet in length of the roof of a high and wide cave has 

 fallen in. Ice remains in this cave until May or later every year. 



Joel Bucknee's Cave. — About 10 miles northeast of Munfordville 

 is a large cave with the entrance on a hillside. The roof has evi- 

 dently extended several rods farther out than at present. The front 

 part of the cavern is wide and high, but is now nearly filled with 

 debris. The roof slopes at about the same angle as loose material 

 within, there being not more than 3 feet of space between the two 

 at any place nearer than 30 feet from the present mouth. Rocte 

 thrown back showed the same uniformity of slope to continue at 

 least several yards and the depth there to be about 20 feet below 

 the top of the detritus at the mouth. This cave was suitable as a 

 habitation before the material now choking the mouth had accumu- 

 lated, provided water was obtainable. The nearest spring now is 

 more than a mile away. An exploration would require, as a pre- 

 liminary, the removal of several hundred cubic yards of compacted 

 rocks and clay. 



Harry Buckner Cave. — Half a mile north of the cavern last 

 named is another with a very narrow entrance. The floor, which 

 slopes downward, is solid rock in part, and the place is not adapted 

 for occupancy. 



Cub Run Cave. — Cub Run is a little settlement 12 miles west of 

 Munfordville, near the Edmonson County line and about equidistant 

 from Green River and Nolin River. Two miles in a direct line south 

 of the village is a cave or rock shelter which has much local notoriety 

 from the fact that three skeletons were found in it. They were 

 imbedded in mixed ashes and earth and accompanied with several 

 pestles, bone perforators, three flint knives, a small celt, and part of 

 a clay pipe stem. One of the skeletons was that of a child not more 

 than 8 or 10 j^ears old. It has been pronounced the frame of a white 

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