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Art. IV . — Account of a great and extraordinary Cave in 
Indiana. In a Letter from Mr Benjamin Adams to John 
H. Farnham, E^. of Frankfort Ohio 
The cave is situated in the north-west quarter of section 
in township No. 3. of the second easterly range in the district 
of lands offered for sale at Jeffersonville. The precise time of 
its discovery is difficult to ascertain. I have conversed with se- 
veral men who had made several transient visits to the interior 
of the cave about eleven years ago, at which time it must have 
exhibited a very interesting appearance, being, to use their own 
phraseology, covered Vdte snow with the salts. At this period 
some describe the salts to have been from six to nine inches 
deep, on the bottom of the cave, on which lumps of an enor- 
mous size were interspersed, while the sides presented the same 
impressive spectacle with the bottom, being covered with the 
same production. Making liberal allowances for the hyperbole 
of discoverers and visitors, I cannot help thinking that the 
scenery of the interior, at this time, was highly interesting, and 
extremely picturesque. I found this opinion upon conversations 
with Generali Harrison and Major Floyd, who visited the cave 
at an early period, and whose intelligence would render them 
less liable to be deceived by novel appearances. 
The hill, in which the cave is situated, is about four hundred 
feet high from the base to the most elevated point ; and the 
prospect to the south-east, in a clear day, is exceedingly fine, 
commanding an extensive view of the hills and valleys border- 
ing on Big Blue River. The top of the hill is covered princi- 
pally with oak and chesnut. The side to the south-east is 
mantled with cedar. The entrance is about midway from the 
base to the summit, and the surface of the cave preserves in 
general about that elevation ; although I must acknowledge this 
to be conjectural, as no experiments have been made with a 
* The abave is the title of a very curious paper, published as an Appendix to 
the first volume of the Archeeologia Americana^ which we have just received from 
the American Antiquarian Society. Mr Adams, the author of the letter, is the 
proprietor of the cave. — D. B. 
