The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-10-29

cave Is found under the cap of tn
mountain, and is some distance aboy
the railway, The entrance forces itscl
through cliff of limestone formations
II is quite narrow, and some sevent,
feet high, The cave is reached by
trail and stairway from the road below
AT the portals, you are required to reg
lister, and also pay the admission fee
) which has been placed at one dollar
When all is ready, the guide, with re
llecting lamp leads of, and each visitor
with lighted candle in single file, fol
lows. In passing from the last vestigt
of daylight, through an extremely mar,
row passage, you emerge into the first
room of interest. From here, you pass
down slight incline, on to a platform,
leading into Cascade hall. This room is
thirty feet high, and from twenty to
thirty feet in diameter. From one
side of this chamber, a tunnel extends
into the rocks several feet. From this
apartment, you pass through tunnel,
into Canopy Hall, the second story of
the cave. The entrance to this room,
has been blasted through a thin parti-
ton of rock. The room is two hundred
and sixty feet long, and thirty-iive feet
wide. It's well illuminated by large
rejecting lamps. From this location,
we 90 into Boston Avenue or the
Crooked Way, which is one hundred
and twenty feet long. Ascending a
stairway of some six or eight steps, you
traverse another avenue, to Music Hall.
This hall is eighty feet long, by between
| five and ten feet wide. Retracing your
steps, you go to another story. First,
you come to st. Elmo's Rest, where
seats are provided for the already weary
traveller. Here, those ambitious to be
remembered, deposit their cards and
photographs. From this point, you ell
ter the Hall of Beauty or the Coral
Chamber. In it are found coral flowers
and alabaster clusters, found in no 9TH
er cave on the continent. We will now
go to the Art Gallery. This room is
some twenty feet long and fifteen wide.
The side walls and ceiling are literally
covered with calcite ornaments. On
returning toward the entrance, we visit
the Garden of Flowers, which is the
climax of cave Communications.
In the usual route taken by visitors,
there are no ladders but the cave, be-
ing so constructed by nature, that it
forms itself into stories, one nearly a.
bove the other, stairways are unavoida-
BILE. They are so separated, however,
that the journey is rendered compare
lively speaking, but little more tedious
than walking on level ground. The
tour through this subterranean wonder,
is unavoidably tiresome, nevertheless.
One of the most beautiful and roman
tic places near Manitou is
CHEYENNE CANYON,
about ten miles distant, over a good
hard road on the extreme western mar
gin of the plain, with the foot hills to
the right, and Pixies Peak always in
sight, till you enter the mouth of the
canyon. 1t is about two miles from the
entrance, to the falls, and all the way
you can fully realize that you are rapid
ly ascending. This canyon differs from
Williams canyon, in so much, as the
latter is rocky and barren, while the
former is vcritablc bower of foliage,
and has a running brook. Notwith-
standing, in this canyon, the walls are
high and PERCEPTIONS in places. A pc
culia feature, particular to this locality,) |
are the small pine trees which grow
from every crevice where foothold is
them by mother earth. The
road winds around great bouldcrs and /
pines; and crosses and recrosses the
beautiful mountain brook, that dashes
and foams over the rocky pathway to
which it has whispered its secrets for
ages, forming little cascades along its
course. You seemingly, wish to jog a.
long forever, but, all of sudden, your
further progress is impeded by perpen-
dicular walls over three hundred feet in
height, and the little brook that we have
traced is pitching over these
gigantic cliffs with a laundering boom,
itself violently from ledge to
ledge, seven in number, and thus form
ing, the Seven Falls. As you stand at
thc foot of these and breathe the air
freshencd by the spray, you have de-
sire to climb the two hundred and fifty
steps that leads to the path above the
Falls. From this elevation, the sight is
Observatories have been
quilt on high pinacles of rock, from
which you can see the plains rolling a.
way far to the east.
Much more l might tell you, of what
s to be seen and enjoyed in and around
but time and space forbid my
further dilation. 1t is fact, that NAH
tou is only one, of many points in the
Rocky Mountains, where beauty and
grandeur combine in rendering the sur
an alluring feature of our
great and glorious West.
GEO. L. WAITE.
Denver, Col, Oct. 16. 1885.
Resorts to the Rope.