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range of apartments, a magnificent hall two hundred 
and fifty feet long, and thirty-three feet high, suddenly 
appears. Here is a splendid sheet of rock-work run- 
ning up the centre of the room, and giving it the 
aspect of two separate and noble galleries. This 
partition rises twenty feet above the floor, and leaves 
the fine span of the arched roof untouched. There is 
here a beautiful concretion, which has the form and 
drapery of a gigantic statue, and the whole place is 
filled with stalagmitical masses of the most varied and 
grotesque character. The fine perspective of this 
room, four times the length of an ordinary church, 
and the amazing vaulted roof spreading overhead, 
without any support of pillar or column, produce a 
most striking effect. In another apartment, which has 
an altitude of fifty feet, there is at one end an 
elevated recess ornamented with a group of pendent 
stalactites of unusual size and singular beauty. They 
are as large as the pipes of a full-sized organ, and 
range with great regularity. When struck, they emit 
mellow sounds in various keys, not unlike the tones 
of musical glasses. The length of this extraordinary 
group of caverns is not less than one thousand six 
hundred feet.” 
Jenolan Caves. 
Many of the features described by Dr. Man tell 
are well shown in the Jenolan Caves. We have the 
vaulted chambers and noble galleries filled with stalac- 
tites most varied and grotesque. We have caverns of 
great beauty, ornamented in a fashion to command 
