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Banncr of Ulster.

A VISIT to the MAMMOTH CAVE
OF KENTUCKY, BY JOHN WILSON, THE
SCOTTISH VOCALIST.
MAMMOTH CAVE. KENTUCKY, MAY 20, 1849.—We
left the City of Rooks, as Nashville is called, on Thurs-
day morning, at half past four, and travelled ninety
miles to our place of destination for the night, which
occupied nineteen hours. The stages in this part of
the country lose a great deal of time needlessly by
sto. ping for meals a great deal oftener than pueple
require them. During our ride we had breakfast at
twenty-one miles from Nashville, at a pl ice called
Tyree Springs, and that was acceptable enough ; but
before it was well digested we had to stop for dinner,
and then again for sapper, in three hours more ; and
as the people in this last hotel. which was at a pretty
little town celled Bowling-green, did not wish to be at
the trouble of making one supper for their own boarders
and aieetherefor the coach travellers, we were compelled
to " bide their time," though not any of us wanted
supper at all, and here we lost an hour and a half.
In our journey we were interested in the daytime by
the great variety of wild flowers we saw, and after
dark by the crowds of fire-flies in the air, in the trees,
in the fields. We reached Bell's,* where we were to
stay for the night at halt-past eleven, where we might
have had another meal, but we did not, like. Bell, a
civil old fellow, is famed for making a kind of Atholl
brose of old peach brandy and honey, which we had a
tasting of, and then went to bed; but Mr. Bell's brose I
shall never taste again, for although it is pleasant enough
to taste, yet I could not g( t the disagreeable flavour of
the peach brandy out of my mouth the whole of the
next day. After a capital breakfast, Bell sent us in a
four-horse stage to the Mammouth Cave, a distance of
eight miles, over one of the roughest roads I ever en-
countered; but what we have seen in this wonderful
place amply compensates for any trouble or difficulty we
may have undergone. lam really quite at a loss how to
begin to give you the least idea of the place, for it is al-
most beyond description; at all events, I feel quite sure
that any kind of description given in writing, by any
mortal man, cannot afford to a stranger the smallest
notion of the wondrousness, the sublimity, the awfulness
of this cave—this stupendous work of Nature. First,
let me tell you, however, before I take you inside, that it
contains 226 avenues; at least that number has been dis-
covered, for there are more than that; forty-seven
domes, eight cataracts, pits innumerable, and eight
rivers, only three of which have been explored. It was
fkrst discovered by the whites in 1802, and during the
last war with England immense quantities of saltpetre
were made in it, the remains of the utensils for the
manufacture of which are still to be seen at a short dis-
ance from the entrance, and even the marks of the hoofs
of the oxen the miners used can be traced in the ground.
It is only about ten years since the curious began to visit
the cave, and every year the visitors increase in number,
and they must continue to do so as the wonders of the
place become more talked of. About the end of June is
the time for crowds coming, and there is ample accom-
modation for more than two hundred people in a very
comfortable• hotel, with an obliging and intelligent host,
named Mosher. There is no other visitor here at pre-
sent but ourselves. Having given you so much pre-
lirninara , I shall endeavour to give you an inkling of
whet what we saw dating our
FIRST DAY'S VISIT TO THE MA MMOTH CAVE.
The necessary alterations having been made in the
Costume of my two daughters, namely, the petticoat
being shortened, and trousers being donn'd—pants I
• ught to have said, for tr u-ers are never named here,
and breeches are never made—and caps being placed
upon their craniums, a gentlemen, who accompanied us
from Nashville, and m) self, having been provided with
costs that had h en coats once, and low-crowned soft
hats, we set off for the cave. We were fortunate in
getting the services of the favourite guide, Stephen, to
whom we had a letter from a lady in Nashville. He is an
active, intelligent, attentive, capital fellow, and after
walking some 200 yards through an avenue of shady
trees, we found hint near the entrance, with his lamps
ready to light, his flak of oil on his back, and one
basket of provisions. We descended by about thirty
rude steps to the entrance, where our lamps being
lighted, we bid farewell for a while to the light of day.
In a very short time we come to a wall that had been
built by the miners, and in which there is a doorway,
inside of which we are fairly in the cave. The tem-
perature of the cave is always at 60, and where the tem-
perature out of doors is higher, the air rushes out at
this doorway, so as to blow out the lamps if the corn,
mend of the guide is not obeyed to keep your lamps
before you. At first one cannot eee very well —the eyes
are not yet accustomed to penetrate the darkness--the
lamps only tended to make the darkness more visible.
By and by we get more used to it. THE CHURCH, as it
is called, is the first apartment where we make a halt.
It is very large with galleries round it, and a projection
of rock at one side, called the pulpit. Being told by the
guide to put our lights behind us, he set fire to a Bengal
light, and then we were struck wiih wonder and awe
at the splendour and the vastness of this rocky apart-
ment. For size, Exeter Hall would be nothing to it.
During the season service is performed in it by some of
the clergymen visitors, and the effect must he very sub-
lime, to see each worshipper sitting with his lamp, listen-
ing to the Word, joining in-prayer to the Lord of all,
and singing his praises. Each person enters with his
lamp, of course, but on coming to the church the lamps
are all placed together; so as to make one general grand
light. The church is in the Main Cave, which is five
miles in extent, and as we move along we see the marks of
the action of the water upon the rocks in every part. The
average height is 50 feet, its width 100 feet ; at one
place, however, it is 340 feet wide. We leave the
Main Cave, and enter the GOTHIC AVENUE, where the
first apartment we come to is called the Haunted Chum.
ber, from two mummies having been found there by the
miners in 1809. They were in a sitting position, and
clothed with deerskins. One of them is now in a mu-
seum in New York; the other was burned by the mu-
seum.in Cincinnati takiug fire. The friend who was
with me being somewhat of a utility sort of person,
wishes everything to be made proper use o', and sug-
gested that the cave would be a capital place for keeping
meat, vegetables, &c., when he was told by Stephen,
much to his satisfaction, that the hotel people used it for
that purpose. We go along farther, and soon find our-
selves in the Register Room, which has, or rather had, a
beautiful white ceiling, but it is now considerably de-
faced by many persons wishing to immortalise them-
selves by writing their names on the roof with the smoke
of
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Bullheciidds
Eugland one or.
meant. There is also a Mr. John Lich does not
state where his locale is. but it is not unlikletl was Mr. Smith of the United States. After passing
thats it
Vulcan's Forge, so called from the stone resemblinglsing
very touch the refuse of a forge, we coma to the Gothic
Chapel Before entering it, hew. ver, Stephen takes
our lamps, and leaves us in the dark for a time, while he
goes and places them on the stalactite pillar in the
chapel. He calls out to us to "come on—there's nothing
to stumble over," and we adv'nce towards the chapel.
How splendid! how beautiful! The stalactite pillars
are all opposite to each other, as if they were really
supporting the roof. It reminded me of the crypt
under the Cathedral at Rochester, in Kent, excepting
that here the pillars were translucent. About ten or
twelve feet high are the pillars, and the stalactite
formations are still going on in some or them. It has
been ascertained, it seems, that it takes thirty years to
form the thickness of a wafer, then how many times
thirty years must it have taken to form these pillars !
It was a solemn scene, the stillness was indeed quite
awful. I broke the silence by singing Luther's Hymn,
while those around me stood like statues. We came
next to what is called Napoleon's Breastwork, an im-
mense block of limestone, that has evidently fallen
away from the roof at some time or other, and now lies
in a slanting form. It is about 60 feet long, 20 feet to
the top, and looks over into a deep ravine. Now we
come to his Satanic Majesty's Armchair, which is the
name given to a splendid stalactite column in the centre
of a chamber, and which on one side forms an excellent
seat. The back is round, and like one of the old-
fashioned chairs stuffed, and covered with silk. You
may have an idea of the size of it when I tell you that it
takes three men's arms to go round it. Not far from it
is another stalactite formation called the Elephant's
Head, from its exact resemblance to one—the eyes, ears,
and trunk are perfect: some barbarian, however, has de-
faced the trunk. Now we approach the Lover's Leap,where
any hapless swain may have an opportunity of getting
rid of all his earthly cares by taking a dismal leap of
50 feet, but no one has yet been desperate enough to do it.
We descend to the left of the Lover's Leap and presently
enter an extraordinary passage in the rock, called the
Devil's Elbow; it is about three feet wide, and twelve
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tlhoeweprasbsarganechbeaorts tehveideGueoethuicf
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water having rushed through it with tremendous force,
though how long ago it is impossible to ascertain. One
of the guides got a terrible fright here some time since,
by a gentleman who was gifted with ventriloquial
powers. He had arrived at the hotel in the evening, and
requested a guide to accompany him to the Cave.
While they were standing over the Lover's Leap he made
a cry for " lights and some water," which seemed to come
through the Devil's Elbow from the apartment below.
The guide, fancying it was some one of his companions
whose lamp had gone out, called out to him, to stay
where he was and he would come to him immediately;
as he was descending by the Devil's Elbow, the voice
came from another part in front of them. He returned,
and was ascending again to the Lover's Leap, when the
voice once more came through the Elbow, at which he
became considerably alarmed, and it was with great dif-
ficulty the gentleman could prevent him from running
fairly off
which however,tof, the Cave, and leaving him iu the lurch,
which perhaps he deserved. On their return, to the
hotel, the guide told the landlord a woeful story, in the
midst
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grounds, when they went out and heard a voice
calling out for some tea and bread and butter. "That's
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