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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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230 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL Of a less imaginative but more sig- nificant character to some of us are such features as Audubon Avenue, Eafinesque Hall, Putnam's Cabinet, Hovey's Cathedral, Jenny Lind's Arm- chair, Ole Bull's Concert Hall, and Booth's Amphitheater—the lists might be extended indefinitelv.
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Among the most interesting discoveries of Indian relics in the Kentucky caverns were a number of neatly braided sandals found in Salts Cave in 1893. Some are made of the fiber of the cat-tail, others are woven of the inner bark of trees, and still others of wild hemp. They display several distinct forms of braiding as well as occasional ornamental tassels. Other inter- esting finds in the caves are half-burned torches made of bundles of cane, stone pestles and axes, bone awls, implements of shell, and parts of gourd vessels. Courtesy of John P. Morton d- Com- pany, Louisville There are other natural wonders in Kentucky. We have mentioned two rivers only; but probalily no equivalent territory in the world is better served by navigable waterways. Perhaps the overland routes may have been corre- spondingly wanting; but the bison came into the country in late prehis- toric times and many of his ti-ails connecting river fords, saltlicks, springs, and open grasslands, have since served both the Indian and the white man as avenues of communication. The salt- licks are of especial interest. They are swampy places where salt exudes from the ground, and thousands of animals, representative of species both living and ex- tinct, coming here to lick the cartli. have been mired and their l)ones left secure for the future paleeontologist. Into this wonderland came the Indian long ago— we cannot yet say when or how or wherefrom. He lived in the caverns and on the Iiilltops, he erected mounds and villages, he cultivated the soil, and he burnt thou- sands of square miles of the natural forest, turning it into grassland to entice the bulfalo; and then—after a time—he seems to have gone away again. The rea- son for his departure is something of a mystery; but, judging from the ac- counts of Spanish, French, and English explorers dur- ing the century preceding the American Eevolution, the heart of Kentuckv was

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