Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 - By a Visiter by Alexander Clark Bullitt
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of Highlands--Beautiful Woodlands--Hotel--Romantic Dell--Mouth of the
Cave--Coldness of the Air--Lamps Lighted--Bones of a Giant--Violence of the Wind--Lamps Extinguished--Temperature of the Cave--Lamps Relighted--First Hopper--Grand Vestibule--Glowing Description--Audubon Avenue--Little Bat Room--Pit two hundred and eighty feet deep--Main Cave--Kentucky Cliffs--The Church Second Hopper--Extent of the Saltpetre Manufacture in 1814. CHAPTER II. Gothic Gallery--Gothic Avenue--Good Road--Mummies--Interesting Account of Them--Gothic Avenue, once called Haunted Chamber--Why so named--Adventure of a Miner in former days. CHAPTER III. Stalagmite Pillars--The Bell--Vulcan's Furnace--Register Rooms-- Stalagmite Hall or Gothic Chapel--Devil's Arm-Chair--Elephant's Head--Lover's Leap--Napoleon's Dome--Salts Cave--Annetti's Dome. CHAPTER IV. The Ball-Room--Willie's Spring--Wandering Willie--Ox-Stalls--Giant's Coffin--Acute-Angle or Great Bend--Range of Cabins--Curative Properties of the Cave Air long known. CHAPTER V. Star Chamber--Salts Room--Indian Houses--Cross Rooms--Black Chambers--A Dinner Party--Humble Chute--Solitary Cave--Fairy Grotto--Chief City or |
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