Litchfield enquirer., 1834-11-06

yious ways" and exploring it's aernaIey gloomy and Soroeuus recesses. Oar first object now. wss 10 re- sc,sr be main cave this we did not by relracng our s,eps bot by Iurnng another branch O the cavern on the leIt hand a small distance from the ' White Chambers;" and after pursuing few hundred yarde ascending in rapid succession steep precplces and crays, until we found ourselves once more In the spacious range oI rooms we had Iet previous to our entering the first branch. It should be remarked, that we left the main the right hand Slde- We returned to it, through an aperture on the LJt hdmd side proving that in oWr ranbes below, we had passed directly under the main cave, our re-enrancs iO ii aOMG quarter "l mile beyOnd or more dis- tant from the moulh than where we had Ie u. Hay
 ing arrived the mouth O the branch al whIch we ae first departed GrOm the main caNe, the differentiated
 the guide and servants rO go n search ol hs hat whc
 Tor convenience, he had parted from m one of the nar- passages at SOlnC distance. Ihe sensations oI ut-
 loneliness produced by being left in the high arch" ed and gloomy room where he s"od' were "ote op- pressive, mol say overwhelming thaR he eNerDeioEe felt, expects feel n any other situation than that in which he placed. The solitude and silence were rlecI-awful-protOund- --appalIing ;-wofds cannot describe-he nerves and senses aome can re- aze them. The guide and. servant having returned, and the road before US being "nobs!rucled, without accident, soon reached the mouth Ol lhe cavern, where found the remainder oI our company ID "a' ing for us The above is hasy nnd in many respects imperfect description of the writer's own observations wn'1e ," ] the Mammoth Cave. The distance we travelled in l the Cave was thought to he about five miles. The
 portion Of the saw, s probably hs interest,"
 ing oiher parts oft, but scarcely made begm-
 nIDg toward A complete eXamlnaIlODs Ahotcu, 'hc
 ofIhe cave, with is unOumbered branches aud
 notifications, almost nerminabIe, and months, per-
 haps years might be employed in exploring those parts
 oft, that have never yet been see" The ma" cave, l tn which the writer raveled about mile and halt, l extends twelve miles, where 1t forks, forming TWO
 main One of these forks only has been expor- ed to it's termination. The distance from the mouth o this point, is said by some, to be twenty miles. me other fork has been explored an equal distance but yet has had sufficient perseverance io trace II to its end The branches from the lnalD cave, the whole distance, are frequent, and the branches from the branches are still more frequent presenting map, presenting the profile Of large tree, with trunk, large branches smaller branches and Iwgs. The floor ana walls of the cave generally dry and d"s'y' !be atmosphere is temperate pure and invigoraug. 1t is said that animal substances placed in the cave, never become pulrescemt. The bodies of several aborig- nes retaining in great aner genera. s"%pe covered in the cave, aud are now preserved n some .nuseuns of the country. Some ot the rooms oi tue 1 cavern were also used as cemeteries ny the org'na population of the country, the bones aud he other re-
 mains, together with the grave clothes 'n which tne bodies enveoped and inferred, m state "i good preservaiion having been discovered by the sapetre aDHiacturcrs, when maxi ing heIr e%caVa'lons' Ahe cloth, however, which formed by the weaving or bradng together of slips of bark was soon de- composed after exposure tO the light No inco"Ven- ience is experienced by remaining in the cavern any length of time, but on the contrary it's atmosphere is regarded by those residing in the vicinity, as being highly conducive to health. In conclusion the writer cannot but remark that he regards the Mammoth Cave as not only the mos. interesting, but of ihe, if not emphaticaly the most wonderful of all natural curos iries yet discovered.
 ]. Hurricane iu Domiaica.-Ata about o'clock on the evening of Saturday. the goth Septem- Der, the rain commenced pouring down in heavy showers, accompanied by high winds until II, when the rain subsided and the wind increased. About midnight. dead calm en- sued, but it seems to have ceased only to re- ceive fresh ,igor. In about a quarter of an hour after, the wind ragged in every direction, and before l, the work of devastation was completed. The lofty cOcpa-nut trees, the strongest on the island, tossed to and fro like the withe,' snapped in two, or were rais- ed, with terrific nOse, from the earth. The smaller houses in town were prostrated. eve " building on the garrison was greatly injur- ed or totally demolished. The spacious Hos- pital was partly unroOfed, and the barrack- masters and adjutant's offices entirely de. stroyed. The Government House, Commis sariat, Custom House, Market House, Jail, Court House and Protestant Church, and in- deed almost every other house in the town, had suffered most severely from the hurri- cane. The mercantile houses of Messrs. Thos. Laing S Co.,, James Garraway g. Co.,, and ThOs. w. Doyle, had experienced very heavy losses.
 Not fewer than an hundred lives are said to have been lost, many of whom were buried under mass of ruins. The plantations are said to exhibit but one expansive field of waste and desola,ion. Details of destruction are given of houses, trees, crops, snd stock. that are truly appalling. Four soOpsr lying in the harbOr at the time of the gale, were lost, and an American schooner, laden with lum Der, was driven ashore at Grand Bay. with out any person On board, and it was supposed that al! hands must have perished before she reached the shOre.- Boston Gazette.
 Perilous Balloon Ascension in Charleston, S. C.-The Charleston Courier of 23d inst. states that Mir. Elliott, 0f Baltimore, ascsnded from Charleston On the afternoon of god, and was borne forthwith out tO sea. Intense anxiety was felt for his safety, which ia Postscript /, is thus annOupced:
 Postscript-ls o'clock midnight.-We are happy to have it in our power to say, that Mir.
 Elliott, the Eronaut, has just reached the ci-
 ty. He informs us that ne ascended to the
 height of between 8 1-S and 4 miles, and was
 in the air about one hour and three quarters,
 having been unable to descend earlier on ac-
 count of some difficulty in opening the valve
 of the Balloon. When he descended it was perfectly dark, and he aligh,ed in the water
 10 or l2 miles out of the Bar, where he re-
 mained about half an hour, supported by the
 Balloon, when skiff from the pilot boat Co.
 rd, Capt. Aldert, came tu his reGei, exlricated him from his very perilous situation, and took
 him on board the boat, from which he was
 taken, in the vicinity of Sullivan's Island, by the steam-boa Eii.ran, Captain Sassard