5. Combustion is perfect in all parts of the Cave.

6. Decomposition and consequent putrefaction are unobservable in all
parts of the Cave.

7. The water of the Cave is of the purest kind; and, besides fresh
water, there are one or two sulphur springs.

8. There are two hundred and twenty-six Avenues in the Cave;
forty-seven Domes; eight Cataracts, and twenty-three Pits.

9. The temperature of the Cave is 59° Fahrenheit, and remains so,
uniformly, winter and Summer.

10. No sound, not even the loudest peal of thunder, is heard one
quarter of a mile in the Cave.

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The author of "Rambles in the Mammoth Cave," has written a scientific
account of the Cave, embracing its Geology, Mineralogy, etc., which we
could not, in time, insert in this publication.




TABLE OF DISTANCES.