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air. Bya little persuasion however, they were prevailed upon to make 
the exploration. With much difficulty they descended some forty feet, 
alabaster, &c., of which the party procured many fine specimens. 
It seems then, that Indiana has a cavern which far surpasses the 
Great Mammoth, as the last discovery in connection with the great 
{Indiana cave will make it one of the largest in the United States. 
It is about eleven miles from Corydon in a southwest direction, and 
about seven north of Leaven : 
9. On the Blue Licks Spring, Licking River, Ky.; by Prof. Ropert 
Peter, M.D., Transylvania University —Saline, and saline sulphur- 
waters, are comparatively frequent in our blue limestone strata; but 
among all the springs of this nature, known at present on this forma- 
tion, in Kentucky, none are as valuable and as remarkable, in many 
respects, as those of the lower Blue Licks. 
flowing out about twenty feet above low water in that stream. 
pumping out seventy six barrels,* in the course of three hours; and 
urs; and in» 
the winter time the stream which flows out from it would probably fill 
a pipe three inches in diameter 
he temperature of this spring was observed by Major ne 2 % 
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egs.; and it is probable that the temperature of the water in the basin 
had been somewhat raised by the external heat of the atmosphere. 
When flowing rapidly it may perhaps be found to approximate more 
. : pias 
deg? 
is On standing exposed to the air, the water becomes of a yellowish- 
green color, very perceptible in a white pitcher, or even ina white 
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