File:Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travel. A full and reliable guide to the United States and the British provinces. With careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous (14784644722).jpg

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Title: Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travel. A full and reliable guide ... to ... the United States and the British provinces. With careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous places and scenes, from original drawings by the author and other artists
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: T. Addison Richards
Subjects: United States--Guidebooks Canada--Guidebooks
Publisher: D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Thoreau Society Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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ich we may see an immense flat rock,called Gatewoods Dining Room; andto the right, a beautiful basin of water,named the Cooling Tub. Beyond isFlint Pit. Still pursuing our detour, wepass, one after the other, NapoleonsDome, the Cinder Banks, the CrystalPool, the Salts Cave, and a wonderfulplace, still beyond, called AnnettisDome, through a crevice of which awaterfall comes. Reentering the main Cave or theGrand Avenue, we arrive, soon, at theBall Room, where Nature has providedevery necessary fitting of gallery andorchestra. Willies Spring has its pleas-ant story, which will delight the won-dering visitor until he is called upon forastonishment at the sight of the greatrock, known as the Giants Coffin. Here begin the incrustations, evervaried in form and character, which areso much the delight of all visitors. TheGiants Coffin passed, we sweep roundwith the Great Bend. Opposite is theSick Room. Hereabouts there is a rowof cabins for consumptive patients. 326 KENTUCKY. The Mammoth Cave.
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The Star Chamber, Mammoth Cave, Ky. Tlie Scar Chamber is a splendidhall, with perpendicular arches on eachside, and a flat roof. The side rocksare of a light color, and are stronglyrelieved against the dark ceiling, whichis covered with countless sparkling sub-stances, resembling stars. Hie Cross Room has a ceiling of170 feet span, and yet not a single pillarto uphold it. The Black Chambers con-tain ruins which remind us of old ba-ronial castle walls and towers. Throughthe Big Chimneys we ascend into anupper room, about the size of the maincave. Here are heard the plaintive whispers of a distant waterfall; as wecome nearer, the sound swells into agrand roar, and we are close to the cat-aract. To enter the place called theSolitary Chambers, by the way of theHumble Chute, we have to crawl uponour hands and knees for 15 or 18 feetbeneath a low arch. Here is the FairyGrotto, the character of which admi-rably realizes the promise of its name.The Chief City or Temple, is an im-mense vault t

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