The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . CO feet high, a massof snowy alabaster. .Several stalactites in the Giant Hallexceed 50 feet in length. The smaller pendents are in- numerable ; in the canopy above the Imperial Spring it isestimated that arc visible at The cascades pointed out are wonderful formationslike foaming cataracts caught in mid-air and transformedinto milk-white or amber alabaster. The C
The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . CO feet high, a massof snowy alabaster. .Several stalactites in the Giant Hallexceed 50 feet in length. The smaller pendents are in- numerable ; in the canopy above the Imperial Spring it isestimated that arc visible at The cascades pointed out are wonderful formationslike foaming cataracts caught in mid-air and transformedinto milk-white or amber alabaster. The ChalcedonyCascade displays a variety of colours. Brands Cascadu,which is the finest of all, being 40 feet and 30 feetwide, is unsullied and wax-like white, each ripple andbraided rill seeming to have been polished. The Swords of the Titans are monstrous blades, eight innumber, 50 eet long, 3 to 8 feet wide, hollow, 1 to 2 feetthick, but drawn down to an extremely thin edge, andfilling the cavern with tones like tolling bells wheu struckheavily by the hand. Their origin and also that of certainso-called scarfs and blankets exhibited is from carbonatesdeposited by water trickling down a sloping and corrugated. Luray Cavern. Scale 290 feet to the inch. 1. Tlie Vestitnle. 13. SaraiensTent 25. Helens Soirf. 2. Waslilnptons Pillar. 14. The Organ 26. Chapmans Lake. 3. Flower Garden. 1.^. Tnwer of Babel. 27. Broaddus Lake. 4. Amphitheatre. 16. Empress Column. 28. Castles on tlic Rhine6. Natural Bildge. 17. Hollow Coliim. 29. ImperHI Spiug. 6. Fish Market. 18. Honry-Baird CoIuniD. 30. The .skeleton. 7. Crystal Sprinc. JI>. Chalcedony Cascade. 31. The Twin Ijikcs. 8. Proserpines Pillar. 20. Coral Spring. .12. Tile Engine Ronm. 9. The Spectral Column. 21. Th. Dragon. 33. Millers Room. 10. Hoveys Balcony. 22. Bootjack Alley. 34. Hawes Cabinet. 11. Oberon8 Grot. 2J. Scaly Column. 3S Specimen Avenue, 12. Titanias Veil. 24. Lost Blanket. 86. Proposed E-tir. surface. Sixteen of these a
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