. Guide book to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky : historical, scientific, and descriptive. ch deposit inthe Crevice Pit, andone of them, in ex-amining it, droppedhis lamp. He climb-ed down into tlieugly black hole, andtried to get hislamp again by feel-ing around with astick. Suddenlythe stick fell rat-iuc i^uviTiAN Temple. tling down an abyss. A sprightly young negro volunteered to be let down atthe end of a rope, as a sort of animated plummet, to soundthe depth of the pit. The story he told, on being drawnup again, was so wonderful that nobody believed him, ofa s[»acious and splendid room, far
. Guide book to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky : historical, scientific, and descriptive. ch deposit inthe Crevice Pit, andone of them, in ex-amining it, droppedhis lamp. He climb-ed down into tlieugly black hole, andtried to get hislamp again by feel-ing around with astick. Suddenlythe stick fell rat-iuc i^uviTiAN Temple. tling down an abyss. A sprightly young negro volunteered to be let down atthe end of a rope, as a sort of animated plummet, to soundthe depth of the pit. The story he told, on being drawnup again, was so wonderful that nobody believed him, ofa s[»acious and splendid room, far larger than the Mr. EdniuiKl F. Leo, a civil engineer of Cincinnati,made his survey of Mammoth Cave, in 1835, he tied astone to a string and ^ struck bottom at 280 feet. As thereal distance is less than 100 feet, the probability is thathe [taid out the rope after the stone rested ; or else thatthe stone rolled down toward the pool below, and wasthen di-awn up ami the whole length of cord taken astelling the dej-th. Un< f th. guides named John iJuford, while accompa-. Mammoth Cave. 57 nying a certain visitor named Smith, in 1843, discoveredthe entrance through Sparks Avenue, to the immenseroom that was named, in honor of the explorer, SmithsMammoth Dome. On a subsequent visit, one of theguides—I think it was old Mat—found the miners lamplying on the floor where it had fallen thirty years before. It was time to return, if we were to carry out our origi-nal plan. On the way, Tom called our attention- to cer-tain signs on the walls, by means of which the guidescould tell their way, if they were at any time in guide has his own mark, and it is said that many atime, when one of the later ones has congratulated him-self on a new discovery, he has been chagrined by findingStephens or Mats sign on the wall, showing a previousvisit. On entering River Hall, we followed a path skirting theedge of clifis sixty feet high and one hundred feet long^embracing the
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