$26 'TEATELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA : 
1 bad procured from a neighbouring house, 
lighted the ends of three or four splinters of 
pitch pine, a large bundle of which he had 
brought with him: they bum out very fast, 
but while they last are most excellent torches. 
The fire he brought along with him, by means' 
of a hit of green hiccory wood, which when 
once lighted, will burn slowly without any 
blaze till the whole is consumed. 
The first apartment you enter is about 
twenty-five feet high, and fifteen broad, and 
extends a considerable way to the right and 
left, the floor ascending towards the former ; 
here it is very moist, from the quantity of 
, water continually trickling from the roof. 
Fahrenheit's thermometer, which stood at 67* 
in the air, fell to 61° in this room. A few 
yards to the left, on the side opposite to you 
on entering, a passage presents itself, which 
leads to a sort of anti-chamber as it were, 
from whence you proceed into the sound 
room, so named from the prodigious reverbe¬ 
ration of toe sound of a voice or musical in¬ 
strument at the inside. This room is about 
twenty feet square; it is arched at top, arid 
the sides of it, as well as of that apartment 
which you first enter, are beatifully orna¬ 
mented with stalactites. Returning from hence 
Into the aetkhamber, and afterwards taking 
