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seventy feet long by from twenty to thirty broad, and fifty feet 
high. Says an enthusiastic writer, in describing this apartment: 
“The curious explorer now witnesses something amazingly sublime. 
The walls are strung with musical colums which, by moving a stick 
over them, will produce a confusion of discordant sounds. ‘The dru m, 
the tamborine, the organ, are each represented and their notes, discor- 
dant heard alone, together aid the full concert, while the sound-boa 
roars its melancholy murmur through the whole. But to pepe’ to de- 
scribe what is here seen and felt is quite in vain; nor c rson 
re even the faintest idea of the sublimity and obi 8 of this sub- 
e until he witnesses its magnificence, nor then can he 
find language copious enough to express his emotions.’ 
no exaggeration. As is well known, this cave is formed 
in selibetons rock, and abounds in huge, irregular, and grotesque 
apartments, extendin ng out, in every direction, ea recesses and 
galleries, and cro te wit th lofty domes and inverted spires. In 
almost every part of the cavern, sounds of thst loudness are 
as prolonged ie intensified to a degree that is absolutely 
- But a few days subsequent to our visit, this cave was 
Sueniiated by two thousand lamps, and a band of music made 
orm in one of its most resounding portions. Much have 
we regretted since, that it was not our fortune to be present on so 
unique and sublime an occasion. To the eye, the effect must 
ing one V 
qiecwhelming é discord, which could be raeesns oully to the “fabled 
owing of the mountains in agony. 
c vasto rex Aolus antro 
m 
tli indignantes magne cum murmure montis 
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various stages of Saivhing. are, in this connection, both interest- 
tune important. This room is 130 feet in length, “ 78 in 
found to er inconsiderable, while a good degree of rove 
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oe the walls, The operation of plastering was done with des- 
patch ; anc 
still soft at and moist, the page pom of the hall was at its min 
mum, and its resonance at the same time almost wholly g0)® 
Heard under these conditions, the articulations of the voice wet? 
