Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia, embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854 . SORGICAL AND DENIAL iSTROlENTS. ROBERT MNAMEE WOULD RESPECTFULLY CALL THE ATTENTION OP PHYSICIANS AND STUDENTS TO HIS STOCK OF Which he will guarantee to sell as low as the same can be purchased in any North-ern City. Please call and examine. 164 Jflain 8trc€t, opposite •Umerican Hotels OESE. 3a: oc: SE^Bi; ::vib: cx::b r^ :xi:iD • GAZETTEER OF VIRGINIA. 79 and Weirs Cave,
Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia, embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854 . SORGICAL AND DENIAL iSTROlENTS. ROBERT MNAMEE WOULD RESPECTFULLY CALL THE ATTENTION OP PHYSICIANS AND STUDENTS TO HIS STOCK OF Which he will guarantee to sell as low as the same can be purchased in any North-ern City. Please call and examine. 164 Jflain 8trc€t, opposite •Umerican Hotels OESE. 3a: oc: SE^Bi; ::vib: cx::b r^ :xi:iD • GAZETTEER OF VIRGINIA. 79 and Weirs Cave, Loth in tlie vicinity of Staunton, are tliosebest known. Madisons Cave extends about 300 feet into theearth, branching into subordinate caverns and terminating intwo basins of water, of about 30 or 40 feet in depth. WeirsCave is much more extensive, and its numerous halls and cham-bers are pillared with an astonishing profusion of stalactites,which in some places resemble stiffened water-falls, in othershanging in rich festoons and folds like tapestry, or seem to risefrom the floor like columns, thrones, towers or statues; it ex-tends 1,260 feet into the ground, and contains upwards of 20large rooms, besides numerous passages and galleries.
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