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smaller animals, seemingly some kind of monkey. These mummies are in "an 

 attitude of repose, as if the animals had come here to die. Hence the room is 

 called the Cemetery. Hair on the dried up skins is well preserved. The roof 

 of the room is marble. The sides, so far as seen, are a glistening quartz, be- 

 lieved to be silicate of zinc, but not yet analyzed. What may be beyond this 

 room has not been ascertained. 



6. A sixth passage is located at the rear of the spring. It is about two 

 feet wide and forty feet in height, and tapers toward the top. It really is a 

 crack, about thirty feet long, in the rock, level and straight. Red, white and 

 brown stalactites hang down from the roof. They reach so low that one has to 

 creep under them. It ends in a circular room, about twenty feet in diameter. 

 The roof, about fifty feet high, is conical. Water constantly falls from points all 

 over the ceiling, as if that were a colander or sieve. This creates a perfect 

 shower. The water escapes through interstices between blocks and fragments of 

 rocks which constitute the floor. The sides of the room are enveloped in water- 

 formations, and the sides of the roof are covered with bright, brown stalactites. 

 An immense stalactite hangs from the center. The room is called the Shower- 

 Bath Room. The space below has not been examined. Neither has it been 

 ascertained where the water goes to. 



7. A seventh passage has a round opening three feet in diameter, and re- 

 tains that shape. It winds and at first is level, but soon begins to slope. The 

 ground is strewn with small bones and teeth. It seems to lead to the space 

 whither flows the water from the last described room, but as yet it has been ex- 

 plored for only a distance of 100 feet. 



8. Ah eighth passage is about six feet wide at the opening and three and a 

 half feet high. It gradually increases in height until, at a distance of forty feet 

 from the beginning, it is six feet high. Up to that point it is level; but now it 

 descends and widens, the roof remaining level, until at a distance of 140 feet 

 from the beginning, it is twelve feet wide and forty feet high. The ground is 

 granite and red clay. The passage ends in a room called the Blow Room, after 

 the late Hon. Henry T. Blow, of St. Louis, who in 1869 penetrated thus far and 

 chiseled his name in the wall. The Blow Room is about 100 feet wide, 250 feet 

 long and 100 feet high. The floor, also of granite and red clay, is level in the 

 center but slopes both ways. On one side is a hole forty feet wide, opening upon 

 a precipice 130 feet deep. At the opposite side is a round shaft, six feet across, 

 partly covered by a great slab of rock. This shaft is thirty-two feet deep. It 

 ends in the roof of a nearly level passage, about ten feet high and six feet wide. 

 After having followed this passage in one direction for forty to fifty rods, one 

 crosses a stream of clear water, about ten feet wide and one foot deep. The 

 passage then widens and becomes the canon of the stream, which one has to cross 

 and recross. Occasionally it gets lower, so that one has to creep. From time 

 to time it expands into rooms, none over twenty feet high, twenty feet wide and 

 varying in length from thirty to fifty feet. This passage has been followed for a 

 distance of two miles, and upwards of twenty rooms have been passed. It is 



