. Guide book to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky : historical, scientific, and descriptive. he famous pit in a new light, and also ob-tained the best view to be had of Shelbys Dome. The ac-companying picture of the Bottomless Pit was taken fromthis point of view. While we were standing there, on theoccasion referred to, I noticed a volume of smoke issuingfrom a window be-yond us. Investi-gating this phe-nomenon, we foundourselves lookingagain into Charyb-dis, though not atits deepest smoke camefrom the blue lightwe had ignited justbefore leaving it. Thus, as we havishown, there arewithin
. Guide book to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky : historical, scientific, and descriptive. he famous pit in a new light, and also ob-tained the best view to be had of Shelbys Dome. The ac-companying picture of the Bottomless Pit was taken fromthis point of view. While we were standing there, on theoccasion referred to, I noticed a volume of smoke issuingfrom a window be-yond us. Investi-gating this phe-nomenon, we foundourselves lookingagain into Charyb-dis, though not atits deepest smoke camefrom the blue lightwe had ignited justbefore leaving it. Thus, as we havishown, there arewithin an areawhose diameterdoes not perhapsexceed 600 yards,six of the largestnaturally formedpits in the knownworld, besides sev-eral others of small-er dimensions; andthe entire group isjoined together byconnecting p a s s -ages. An inspec-tion of the accom-panying diagram The Bottomless Pit.(opposite page 45) will enable the reader to get an ideaof this extraordinary locality. On inquiring of Mr. Klett if there was any sink-holein the vicinity to correspond with this cluster of chasms,. 50 Celebrated American Caverns. lie diivctiMl mo to a })ioco of unbroken forest, less thanhalf a mile from the Mammotli Cave Hotel, where all therequiroments of the case seem to be met. This vast de-pression embraces many acres, and is so deep that, whenstanding on its edge, one can overlook the tops of thetrees growing in the central portion. It remains to beproved by further explorations whether there are anyhidden tunnels of communication between it and the re-markable group of domes and pits I have been trying todescribe.
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