Cave regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills . tals, such as could beformed only beneath the water%.; surface. Mostof this border has, unfortunately, been chiseledoft for specimens, but will be renewed in timeif left undisturbed; and that condition caneasily be secured with a few feet of wirenetting. To one side of this room is a most daintilj^beautiful alcove so profusely decorated withfragile forms of dripstone that a passagethrough it without causing damage is extremelydifficult. This alcove is about twenty-five feetin either direction, with a sloping floor almostcovered with stalagmi tic gro
Cave regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills . tals, such as could beformed only beneath the water%.; surface. Mostof this border has, unfortunately, been chiseledoft for specimens, but will be renewed in timeif left undisturbed; and that condition caneasily be secured with a few feet of wirenetting. To one side of this room is a most daintilj^beautiful alcove so profusely decorated withfragile forms of dripstone that a passagethrough it without causing damage is extremelydifficult. This alcove is about twenty-five feetin either direction, with a sloping floor almostcovered with stalagmi tic growths above the earlierdeposit of sharp crystals, and many of theserise in slender columns to the glass-like ceiling,which varies in height from three to six feet andis thickly studded with small stalactites of bothvarieties—the pointed, solid form, and those ofuniform size, which are always hollow like apipe stem. The central ornament is the Chimes,a musical group of stalactites which is scarcelymore beautiful than Cleopatras Needle, at u. The Chimes. Page 188.
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