. Guide book to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky : historical, scientific, and descriptive. .statement in Johnsons Physical Cieography, though I do not vouchfor its correctness: From a blowing cave in the Alleghany mountains, lOn feet in diameter, the current of air is so strong as to keepthe weeds prostrate to the distance of sixty feet from its mouth. Butthe most extraordinary example is the great cave of Ouybe, of un-known extent, in central Asia. The tempests that rush from it aresometimes so violent as to carry off every thing on the road into anadjoining lake! The wind coining from the inter
. Guide book to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky : historical, scientific, and descriptive. .statement in Johnsons Physical Cieography, though I do not vouchfor its correctness: From a blowing cave in the Alleghany mountains, lOn feet in diameter, the current of air is so strong as to keepthe weeds prostrate to the distance of sixty feet from its mouth. Butthe most extraordinary example is the great cave of Ouybe, of un-known extent, in central Asia. The tempests that rush from it aresometimes so violent as to carry off every thing on the road into anadjoining lake! The wind coining from the interior of the earth issaid to be warm in winter, and so dangerous that caravans often stopfor a whole week till tlie tempests have subsided! Mammoth Cave. 21 tremendous energies may once have hurled the loose rocksto the floor that now lie scattered aiound, no convulsionhas disturbed the strata forages, and there is no safer placeabove ground than is here below. The loudest thunder-storm may roll jtcross the heavens, but its din does not in-vade the profound quiet of theae deep OULOPHOLITES, OR CiTRVED CRYSTALS OV GtPSTTM. CHAPTER 111. The Main Cave—The Narrows—Saltpeter Works—Rotunda— Avenue—Bat Kooms—Skeletons—Temperature of MammothCave—Kentucky Cliffs—Methodist Church—A Subterranean Sermon—Standing Rocks—Grand Arch—Water-clock—Wandering WillieaSpring—Grotesque Fancies—Giants Coffin—Acute Angle—RudeMonvunents—Stone Cottages—A Strange Sanitarium—Star Chamber—A pleasing Incident—Salts Room—Proctors Arcade—KinneysArena-Wrights Rotunda—Black Chambers—Cataracts—SolitaryChambers—Fairy Grotto—Chief City—St. Catherines City—End ofMain Cave. Whatever route one takes, he must traverse for a longeror shorter distance, what is fitly designated as the MainCave, hecanse it is like a great trunk, from which theavenues seem to branch. I shall, therefore, dcA^ote thischayiter to its description, together with some
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