A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . n Catholics have each a large number of churches. There are also some societies ofShakers and Unitarians. Curiosities. — Among the extraordinary objects of wonder found in tliis state is thecelebrated Mammoth Cave, which has not, probably, an equal in the known world. It issituated in the county of Edmonson, near the centre of the state, and its subterranean vaultshave been explored to tlie extent of some eight to ten miles. Its earthy floor is impregnatedso strongly with nitre, that considerable quantities of tliis article have been extracted t
A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . n Catholics have each a large number of churches. There are also some societies ofShakers and Unitarians. Curiosities. — Among the extraordinary objects of wonder found in tliis state is thecelebrated Mammoth Cave, which has not, probably, an equal in the known world. It issituated in the county of Edmonson, near the centre of the state, and its subterranean vaultshave been explored to tlie extent of some eight to ten miles. Its earthy floor is impregnatedso strongly with nitre, that considerable quantities of tliis article have been extracted there-from. There are several other remarkable caverns in the state, principally in the south-westpart, between Cumberland and Green Rivers. Many of the lofty, perpendicular precipicesof solid limestone on the banks of Kentucky River, and the frequent chasms formed in thesubjacent calcareous rocks by the rapid action of large streams, may likewise be enumeratedamong tJie natural curiosities of Kentucky. STATES AJSID TERKITORIES—LOUISIANA. 59. LOUISIANA. This state became a territorial member of the Federal Union in the year1803, under peculiar circumstances. It had been successively the property of certain Frencliadventurers, of the crown of France, of the government of Spain, and again of the French,by whom it was sold to tlie United States for $15,000,000. One of the conditions of thetransfer required tlie United States to liquidate all claims of American citizens uponFrance, on account of commercial spoliations prior to the year 1800 — an obligation ivliicli,after tlie lapse of neariy half a century, has not been fulfilled. Within 20 years after thediscovery, in 1663, of the River Mississippi, the territory was explored by La Salle, who, inhonor of Louis XIV., called it by the name it now boars. The first settlements were made atabout the commencement of the 18th century ; and in 1731, the proprietors relinquished tlieirjurisdiction to the king, who ceded it to Spain, i
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