The caverns of Luray : an illustrated guide-book to the caverns, explaining the manner of their formation, their peculiar growths, their geology, chemistry, etc. . -. Going further we enter the engine room,containing the locomotive and curious helictites of unusual sizeresembling potatoes. The formations here are of a strikinglyeccentric character. Turning back to the main route we con-tinue for some distance until we reach the point at which theguide tells us it is proposed to open a new exit from the cave to the outerworld. NearD r. M i 11 e rsRoom* wefi n d largemasses of cal-cite brokenawa
The caverns of Luray : an illustrated guide-book to the caverns, explaining the manner of their formation, their peculiar growths, their geology, chemistry, etc. . -. Going further we enter the engine room,containing the locomotive and curious helictites of unusual sizeresembling potatoes. The formations here are of a strikinglyeccentric character. Turning back to the main route we con-tinue for some distance until we reach the point at which theguide tells us it is proposed to open a new exit from the cave to the outerworld. NearD r. M i 11 e rsRoom* wefi n d largemasses of cal-cite brokenaway with dy-namite cart-ridges in an ef-fort to createa wider open-ing. Someof the hugeblocks thusdislodged areremarkablefor fineness ottexture. Onbeing cut intoslabs and pol-ished they arequite equal tothe eel ebra-ted Mexicanonyx, fromwhich theydiffer mainly in vividness of color. Sections of stalagmites show great va-riety and richness of coloring. Some of these have been pol-ished and are sold to visitors as mementoes of the caverns. To. THE WET BLANKET. * Named after the late Dr. Miller of Luray, a great admirer of the cave, and an exemplarycitizen of Page county. 45 the inexperienced eye they resemble sections of petrified trees,and would-be purchasers have been known to ask for those specimens which have the bark on. Last of all we reach the entrance of a large dome-shapedapartment to which the appropriate name of Chaos has beengiven. E r e b u s.—Clamberingover a huge pile of ruinsin Giants Hall, andmounting to a consider-able height by means of aladder, we enter upon theroute to Erebus. On ourway Ave find many curiousformations to these maybementioned The Toys, acluster of upward andlateral helictitic grow* §gathered about the cital of a stalactitic coluTurning about we find^ieway from this point toErebus arduous and diffi-cult. It grows smaller andsmaller until we mustneeds creep, at full length,some twenty feet througha narrow, wet, and muddypassage, wh
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