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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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224 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL cial appeal, partly by virtue of intrinsic merit and partly by contrast with their varied general settings. Thus, for ex- ample, the open blue grass country about Lexington, with "ITs "splendid pikes, its mansions, its fine horses, and great dairies, seems a bit of the ma- tured Old World transferred. Bounding it on the south, however, is the wild-look- ing gorge of the Kentucky Eiver, pre- senting cliffs that are worthy of compari- son with the Palisades of the Hudson; and beyond lies the wilderness, perhaps tl)o primeval forest—I do not know. If we transport ourselves about one hundred miles in a southwesterly direc- tion over the semiforested tableland to the approximate geographical center of the state, we come to another equally enticing stream known as the Green Eiver. We are told that it was named after General Nathanael Greene; but it is green in fact as well as in name, and it flows on calmly and majestically without giving a hint of its peculiar origin. Its bordering cliffs may be less abrupt, as a general thing, than those of the Kentuekv, but tlic winding gorge is
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The entrance to the Mammoth Cave at present measures about forty feet from side to side and twenty feet from floor to ceiling. The slope down which the steps lead is about thirty-five feet high and has been artificially graded. The floor in the foreground has also been raised by recent filling. A small stream of water falls over the mouth of the cave (see photograph, page 227), and as daylight reaches back about one hundred feet, this entrance is a cool and comfortable place on a hot summer's day and a convenient camping ground. Conditions were not so favorable, however, wlien the Indian lived here, because at that time the entrance was nearly closed with debris and very little daylight entered

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