. Guide book to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky : historical, scientific, and descriptive. with tilsclfrtmess of .style and vividness of description, make this work one of the most instructiveand entertaining ever offered to the public. His monographs on single caverns, in the En-cyclopedia Britannica, and in i-cribners and other magazines and scientifie wiin for the author, deservedly, a wide and lasting fame. The numerous maps andiiiiis a-id greatly to the value of the work; and tlie pictorial illus-trations are fromii^s made expressly for the volume by Barton, ienell, Lee, and
. Guide book to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky : historical, scientific, and descriptive. with tilsclfrtmess of .style and vividness of description, make this work one of the most instructiveand entertaining ever offered to the public. His monographs on single caverns, in the En-cyclopedia Britannica, and in i-cribners and other magazines and scientifie wiin for the author, deservedly, a wide and lasting fame. The numerous maps andiiiiis a-id greatly to the value of the work; and tlie pictorial illus-trations are fromii^s made expressly for the volume by Barton, ienell, Lee, and other artists of repu- While the largest space is reserved for the three most famous caverns named in thetitlepage, full notices are given of \Vever.«, Howes, and Picketts caves, tlieCave of Cacahna-milpa, Canadian caves, the CI iff Dwellers of New Spain, etc. The prel minary chapters,on the structure, varieties, mineral contents, and arcna:ology of caverns are elear and in-structive. The work is admirably indexed. The Robert Clarke Company, Publishers, Cincinnati, 0. Mammoth Cave. GUIDE BOOK MAMMOTH CAVE OF KENTUCKY HISTOPJUAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND DESCPJPTIYE HOI^ACE C. HOVEY CI N C I N N A T 1THE KOBERT CLARKE COMPANY. 18^5. Copyright, ROBERT CLARKE & iij MAMMOTH CAVE CHAPTER I. Pioneer Patriots—Saltpeter Miners—Discovery of ]\rammoth Cave—War of 1812—Change of Owners—The Croghan Heirs—The Guides—Early Literature of this Cavern—Its Geological Survey—Its Fauna—Map-making under Difficulties. The pioneers who followed in the wake of DanielBoone, a centuiy ago, were thrown on their own resourcesin all respects. Gunpowder was one of the necessa-ries of life for men in daily peril from wild beasts andmore savage Indians; hut its importation was attendedwith expense and difficulty. Hence they sent out suchstrolling chemists as happened to he among them, to huntfor niter beds. These were found in considerable quanti-ties under the shelter of ledges at the hea
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