The mediterranean naturalist 
The simultaneous weathering along the jointing 
and the bedding planes caused the displacement 
of an enormous rock mass, and, by carryng away 
a half of the first chamber, it exposed the other 
half in the vertical cliff face. The exposed chamber 
now forms the main entrance to the cave. It is 
situated at a height of about forty feet above the 
present bed of the gorge; and after penetrating 
the cliff face for about twenty feet in a southerly 
direction, it branches off and forms two galleries, 
the directions of both of which are roughly pa- 
rallel to that of the gorge itself. 
The roofs and sides of both the chambers and of 
the galleries are most irregular in outline, being 
much broken and fissured; and the bottom is co- 
vered with a stiff, red clay intermixed with angular 
rock fragments that have broken off and fallen 
from above and around. 
After passing through the entrance the first 
chamber opens out; but as we advance inwards, it 
contracts abruptly and forms a funnel-shaped 
orifice which serves as an entrance into a second 
chamber. 
The roof and sides of this branch are also very 
irregular in outline, and show distinct evidences 
of curvi-linear groovings, and semicircular under- 
cuttings similar to those found in the gorge and 
in the Har Dalam Cave, These evidences of 
water-action are present in all of the embran- 
chments; but they are more pronounced in this 
chamber than they are in the first, where, in 
many instances, they have been almost obliterated 
by the breaking away along the joints of the 
overhanging rock masses. 
Broad sheets of stalagmitic incrustations formed 
by the lime-charged waters, wTiich are constantly 
percolating through the porous rock, cover a con- 
siderable portion of the sides; and serve, by means 
of their insoluble constituents, their fantastic 
shapes, and their gorgeous colourings, at once as a 
restorative, a protective, and a decorative agent. 
At the distal extremity of the cavern these sheets 
are replaced by thousands of minute pendants of 
pearly whiteness, many of which have coalesced 
and formed festoons and graceful alto-relievo 
traceries. 
From the curves and extremities of many of 
these, pellicles of iimeeharged water depend, the 
reflected light from which gives forth kalei- 
doscopic changes of the most gorgeous colourings 
that scintillate and sparkle in the semi-gloom, and 
serve to impart to the scene a weird, not to say an 
impressive aspect. 
The dimensions of the second chamber are 16 
feet wide, and from 6 to 8 feet high. 
