The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1878-04-10
Asubterraueau "Trip.
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cave short distance. and knowing that
it tad another room or iorh 40 II, We PIE
pared our,rl,e. with lunch and lights TOR
tw o days tap and started early in the
morning. aud were soon al the entrance
of the Belt Cave. 20 called from the
nearest residents. named Belt
The entrance Ia this cave WAS down
about thirty ieet. then over cracsy rocks
and under a shelf of ro.K wheh !ou AS
c-nd from these cra-gy rocks. sud Wy re-
Won have to siunp itile 10 get IN To
tiual darkness Here We moved along "n
MODERATELY smooth bottom hr some dis
lance Tlrally We came 10 where tie
cave forks Ore srem L. ascend Snd
he ,r- to the ,eit-thi- i called the dr'
f,rk. The other seem- 10 d'scrhd ami
br,r. 10 the night, sud is called the
wuirry fox. Thjs ior& l. t"" or three
huud, ell yards from the entr nee "
entered tue dry iurk ~ d loon came into
fine barge TO IN THIS room l. three or
four hundred ward, bong about eish'rcn
or twent, le,t Wide, hcau,iiu Iy srchcd
over, ahou, ten iert high. The e'.tr.e
val look .iks Ihe, were plasicrrd. just
al The entrance ii thi- room. aLoEt elsh'
eel Liyh. on tie LIT, ~ a NRul; m ihr
solid eide NalI about large enough for a
large bear 10 lay. f. this vault or Lei
VS. leaves at various kui~. ii"" thrN
came there ! will leave t"r mN readers 9"
decide. 4 lev wards tdr,h,r On 'nr
-ame side j. iair counter ii II mar
~, Al The base, ana ", icns out Ia a!'"u
three feet at the top. and L. ~ level and
smooth - any limc--tnne, of winch the
whole cave is composed 'lhis COULTER
; about three feet hi a"i about Nv"
and one halt le,t from the solit wal,
aud two huudred feet hong. Tins ent're
room is dry and smooth. When W"
we're in ihi- cave there we're numerous
roxrs aud barrels tillei with sweet p"ta-
tors SIT ou this COULTER that the citizen"
IN lie vicinity had placed there 10 keep
during the winter was assured that
not one COED. sound potato placed there
would decay while left there. Between
the entrance of this room aud the "ou"ter
Is a s'ream OF water that ialls doNn from
the roof and has formed a small mound
about two feet high, with basin on '"p
full of water. which continually flows
over ia. ed OF the bowl. The bowl IT.
about four inches deep. AMI rea-"nahlr
size for a wash bowl Leaving thus
beautiful room, we proceeded over NOR
uneven bottom aud rnuGher walls aud
crooks and turns, 20 that W. were com
PEELED 10 leave marks frr fear We might
loose our way IN returning We iou"d
one opening in the bottom that We
dropped n rock down into. and We could
count fifteen before it struck. IL .ound>
ed like il struck water. sGd likely did
We finally came to where We Thought q
would squeeze us too hard To get dow
and crawl, 20 We returned suppo-r :
we had been in the cave about two mi r.
We then started into the watery FORK
We went but ha- di-Iauce before W.
entered room which you may call ba'
room. tor there we ba hy the thou
sands both fying aud hanging Ia thu
room il whore we came in with the
water. A small shallow stream, nbou
Elk feet wide aud twelve inches dreI,
with good. level. solid rock l'anks. sith
good walking room on either SIDE the
most of the wsy. Ia this creek are
small fish; aud cav fish a. large rs an,
claw ti-h Thrse fish aud CLAW tish arr
white and without eyes Ne caught
some aud examined for ourselves. W.
Travelled on this stream until it closed
down, aud we returned Returning. the
writer of this MAS a lew step- behind,
when We had to cross the little stream
Those in advance jumped the stream
When ! came to it thought | would
step down IN it and then step mp on the
cthsr bank. The water WAC much
deeper Than | thought it was. con-e-
quently ] lost INV balance and went for
ward. and to save my head from striking
the opposite bank, threw out my hands
and of course threw out my light
Right here AS a turn IN the cave Ny
| light Wa out, my cnmpsG ious gone. and
knowing that you could not 'ell III what
direction sounds came, thought ! might
have kept still An hOur or 20 before my
( friends would n,iss n,e and return {,
f;nd me, so | stood IA siill as the dark
ness would let, knee drep in water. snC
hallooed Justify ] could hear then
asking "uhere are you and all tina.
could saw was here in the branch, COM
on. nav Eight is out aud NV feet c"ld.
Presently | saw tie beacon light turf
the conner in the Gaze. aud that WAS
welcome sight to me. Ny Trends hs'
a good laugh al me. but couli not JON
q EN- ia that laugh We supposed tina
we explored this fork OF the cave abou
two miles, and thought it possible tina
the rock VII ch We tnrew down the crew
ire in The dry fork fell in this came ltd