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of the cave is twenty-three miles, including all the avenues. It 
has many fine halls and domes, the largest of which has a cir- 
cumference of 1,000 feet, and is said to be 205 feet high. The 
name has hitherto been Mammoth Hall; but it is now re-named 
Rothrock’s Cathedral, to avoid confusion, and also as a tardy 
recognition of the worthy man who originally purchased the 
lace from the government and left it as a heritage to his sons. 
yandot Cave should be visited even by those who have 
already explored the greater cavern of Kentucky; for it is far 
richer in stalactitic ornamentation, although less abounding in 
gypsum rosettes or “ oulopholites.” The stalactites are of the 
fine-grained translucent kind often called alabaster, and much 
resembling the Mexican onyx. 
hermometrical observations, made by the same instrument 
and methods used in Mammoth Cave, showed that, while the 
temperature of the outer air was 76°, that of Wyandot Cave 
averaged 554°. The highest temperature was found in the 
Pillared Palace, 57°; the lowest in the Wyandot’s Council-room, 
54°; elsewhere, out of twenty-two observations, an equal num- 
ber indicated 55° and 56°. In two springs the water was found 
to have a temperature of 52°, and in one of 54°. Thus, instead 
of being, as has often been said, 6° colder than Mammoth Cave, 
we found it only half a degree colder. 
n important discovery was made last April by a party of 
students from Wabash College, led by Mr. C. E. Milroy. Fore- 
ing their way through a low, narrow passage for fifty feet from 
a locality marked on the map as the Rugged Pass, they entered 
a realm of chaos, named, after its discoverer, Milroy’s Temple. 
Pits, miry banks, huge rocks, are overhung by galleries of 
creamy stalactites, vermicular tubes intertwined, frozen cata- 
racts and all in short that nature could do in her wildest and 
torches long extinct were sticking in a crevice in the low ceil- 
ing. The tracks of some wild beast were also found which led 
us to name the place the Wolf's Lair. The roof seems to have 
fallen in since the torches were left here; and our compa tol 
us that the closed avenue must have led to Banditti Hall, within 
1,200 feet of the mouth. Animals of various kinds are known 
to have frequented this cave in former days. We saw the 
skeleton of an opossum and also of a wild cat, besides pate 
Stout poles from five to eight feet long, marked by sharp teet 
iM some ancient contest. “ Bear-slides” are shown in several 
