The great Kentucky cavekn'. 
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it ]„ '"(erior to the second, having an arch which cover* 
'*'hi 3cres. In this last avenue, the extremity of 
' *^‘>nnot be less than four miles from the chief city, 
moutii of the cavern, are upwards of 
bfQU ^ ,?tge piles of salt-petre earth on the one side, and 
rvnriP** ’tne-stone heaped un on the other, evidently the 
pf human hands. 
tliij course of his needle, the Doctor expected that 
but ■would have led circuitously to the chief city j 
at a f ttuch disappointed when he reached the extremity, 
retrap^"' ^‘tindred yards distance h'ora the fourth city. In 
tile e ® '^tep.s, not having paid a due attention to mark 
tvii[jg''h'^tices of the different avenues, lie was greatly be- 
or ty^, ®tid once completely lost himself for nearl}'' fifteen 
reacij^'J^y ntinutes. I'hus, faint and wearied, he did not 
itiitiud '^^hef area till ten at night ; bat was still deter- 
hlavi^ ^’tplore the cavern so long as his light should last._ 
area ^ ®'^'ered the fifth and last avenue from the chief 
“ proceeded scuth-ea.st about nine hundred yards, 
of tile fifth area, the arcli of which covers upwards 
and of level ground, strewed with lime-stones, 
^‘p-l^eds of an r.ticonimoii size, .surrounded 
°PpositT''.^^ iiiter.spctsed. Another avenue on the 
'ides of * t t)f still greater capacity, the walls or 
[Jtiticejj ''' tvere more perfect than any that had been 
\ and^n"-^'”^ almost due south for nearly a mile and a 
"Pile t] very level and straight, with aiielepnt arch. 
®''cnug 'doctor was employed, at the extremity of this 
ba'd s 'Itetching a plan of the cave, one of his guides, 
■^viug ^*'®yed to a distance, called on him to follow. 
f on ^ guide, he was led to a vert ical passage, 
j a chamber at least 1800 feet In circuna- 
^ centre of the afrh of which wa.'i 150 feet 
^^^dnignt w'hen he entered this chamber of 
. *^ess ; artrl XTrK/i.x l./a r\r^ «-1 1 flryir/ant’ 
. ^ ~**4CS jK - — — — 
^*cavgjjj,^?^ghwhichhehadpassed,sincehe had penetrated 
'ttile's' ■ ttaoruing, and now found h imself buried 
; and when he reflected on the different 
‘n the dark recesses of this awful cavern-— 
■qo? thousands of human beings — he 
^ it ®g horror. The avenue, or passage, which led 
®5 large as any he had entered j and It is un- 
