The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-10-13
From the LourSritte J0urnai.
Terrific Adventure in the Mammoth
Cave.

CdVe.
At the supposed eLd of what has al.
( ways been considered the longest avenue
! of the Mammoth Cave, nine miles from
its entrance, there is "A pit, dark and deep
and terrible, known as the Maelstorm.-
, Tens of thousands have gazed into it
with awe while Bengal lights were
| thrown down it to make it tear!ulv visi-
bic, but none ever had the daring to ex
| pIore it. The celebrated guide, Stephen,
( who was deemed insensible to fear, was
offered SIX hundred dollars by the propri.
/ elors OF the Cave # he would descend 10
the bottom Of it, but he shrank from the
peril. A few years ago, Tennessee pro
lessor, a learned and bold man, resolved
10 DO what no one before him had dared
do, and making his arrangements with
great care and precaution, he had him
self lowered down by strong rope a
hundred feet, but Al tha, poi.t his cour-
age failed him, and he called aloud to be
drawn out No human power could ever
have indnced him to repeat the appall.
ing experiment.
A couple of weeks ago, however, a
young gentleman of Louisville, whose
nerves never lrembled ut mortal peril, be.
ing at the Mammoth Cave, with Profess
or Wright OF this city, and others, deter.
mined, no mater what the dangers and
".nT"''eS "'S"' De- TO explore lne depths
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he ,aescendoJ Er tho s;Ia or,h', c,IIina
wafer and in ,ba m;ls, of ,ho sn,ov H.,
( f.It soma onrrahars;on ,b., h;s E,,h,
would he eyunymshed I'm, his care nre.
Z vented .his Uo WAS Iandad q, tho ho,.
/ .om of the nil a hundred and n;re,y
/ fee, from the ton. He fnupd !, uImost
circular. abou eiyL,een feet in di,m.,or
/ with a small on,.n,n,, a, ono no;p, Ie,d;p,,
10 fine chamber of no yrea, extert2
, H.. found ON ,h. floor beautifpI snecin,a,s
of black slick immense size. vastly LARGER
than were ever discovered in any o,Ser
part of the Mammoth Cave. and also a
multitude Of exousite formations which
are white the yIrOIn SNOW. Making
himself heard with great effo,, by b;s
friends h. NJ leng,h 9sked tbeu +, mil
him partly up ;ntending to ,ton IN Tho
way and eynIn,e . cave he had ohse,y.d
opep,pc abnut forty fee, from ,ha ho,,o,n
Of the pit. Reaching the mou,b If ,ha
cave he swupg bimseIf with mncb ever
ton into i, and hoIdino rho and of ,Lo
rome in his hand he incsntiouslv lar !, On
and j, swung on, snnaren,Iv bsvopd b;s
reach.
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his fr;ands aI""n "".',I u" -, .I' I"e' "riu
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