. The Audubon annual bulletin. Birds; Birds. 12 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN. Clarence Bonnell—Photo. TYPICAL CAVE NEAR STILL-HOUSE HOLLOW found, but everything points to the fact that the site had been chosen and the wall had been erected as a means of defense by the predecessors of the Indians. Leaving Saline county, a section in Hardin county be- tween the towns of Eliza- bethtown and Cave-in-Rock, is of special interest. Fol- lowing the old stage route which was a star route for the United States mails until about ten years ago, the site of the old iron furnace is passed. Iron was smelted in consi
. The Audubon annual bulletin. Birds; Birds. 12 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN. Clarence Bonnell—Photo. TYPICAL CAVE NEAR STILL-HOUSE HOLLOW found, but everything points to the fact that the site had been chosen and the wall had been erected as a means of defense by the predecessors of the Indians. Leaving Saline county, a section in Hardin county be- tween the towns of Eliza- bethtown and Cave-in-Rock, is of special interest. Fol- lowing the old stage route which was a star route for the United States mails until about ten years ago, the site of the old iron furnace is passed. Iron was smelted in considerable quantities at one time and pigs of iron are yet found in the region used to weight down har- rows or lying about barnyards. Want of transportation facilities was the death of this once prosperous industry. Leaving Elizabethtown, the county seat of Hardin county, two roads lead to Cave-in-Rock, a few miles up the river. The upper road, the one furthest from the river, should be taken. This is a limestone region and is evidently honey-combed with subterranean passages. For several miles along the road almost every field is punctured with sinkholes where the roof of the cavern below has fallen in. In some of these, the opening is clear so that the water goes through at once, in others the passage has become blocked and ponds are formed. At one place the roadway has been built across one of the larger of these ponds. Another which I visited had a pond in the edge of a cornfield. A number of years before, the hole was a dry one. After a season of heavy rains the sink was found filled with water and so remained, the opening having been clogged so as to prevent further drainage. The fence which was built through the sink when it was dry still remained, mostly submerged. Caves of considerable extent and fabulous reputation are said to exist near but I have not had a chance to explore them. One such passage opens into the river bluff at Cave-in-Rock and forms the famous cave a
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