. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 458 LURAY CAVERN, PAGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. Passing onward the visitor stops for a few moments to admire what seems to be the retreating form of a lady in full party toilet. Her head is just hid by the jamb of the distant doorway; but rounded shoulders, delicate arms, shapely waist, and long, flowing skirt and train, profusely ornamented, all are there. The proprietors have named this the Ladies' Toilet, but some of the Smithsonian party sugge
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 458 LURAY CAVERN, PAGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. Passing onward the visitor stops for a few moments to admire what seems to be the retreating form of a lady in full party toilet. Her head is just hid by the jamb of the distant doorway; but rounded shoulders, delicate arms, shapely waist, and long, flowing skirt and train, profusely ornamented, all are there. The proprietors have named this the Ladies' Toilet, but some of the Smithsonian party suggested the title " Cinderella leaving the ; The path leads hence across Pluto's Chasm, by the Bridge of Sighs, to a rift bearing the grim title of Skeleton The Grand Gulch and Geyser. Here, 110 feet below the mouth of the Cliasm, in the bottom of a narrow trench, are the bones of what appears to have been a human being. The vandalism of former visitors made the proprietor rather shy of the ex- ploring party; but as far as could be made out a man or woman lost in the cave had wandered to the edge of Pluto's Chasm, and, fiilling over, had here become entombed. Most of the bones are concealed by the tufaceous floor which has formed over them, but protruding through and above this are to be seen the head of a femur with an inch or two of the vertebral column, two or three small pointed projections resem- bling teeth, and a portion of a third bone undetermined. It was abso- lutely impossible to gain any information concerning these bones which would be of scientific value. The ground passed over is only one-fourth of the cave accessible, with but little trouble, to visitors; and yet the fleeting hours invite return and compel a speedy Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original
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