The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-01-28

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very narrow gate, or the "Lean Man 5
Delight" Our travels are now over
the rough, ragged and rocky road to
Dublin, passing over cliffs and decliy-
| tiles. but the wearisome travel over
road is ameiorated by landing in
"Cypress Swamp" Il large apartment
! 200 feet square. Small pools of beau
tiful clear water are over the bottom,
and dotted among the water are lime
stone formations of snowy white, in
the form of twigs, dead grasses and
seeds, giving II a spongy, narshy
look. One can sit here for hours
when this apartment is we'll lighted
up and view with admiration and de-
light this wonderful freak of nature.
Leaving this place with everlasting
impressions we pass to smaller room
called the Ladies' Pin Cushion. !"
From this we take our exit at sad
chamber of reflection. Above is q
large bowIder "with no visible means
of support" Really our first impress
sion is to start away that We may not
be crushed. But foolish thought |!
This has been suspended for many
ages, and will probably so remain for
many more. This queer bowlder ON
account of its size and manner of sus-
pension, is named "Mahomet's Coffin.n
In the middle of the same chamber
is statue of Lots Wife,
Hurrying along we come to the
"Theater Room" where is perfectly
formed stage, balcony, etc. This room
is seyenty-fiye by sixty and forty feet
high. For ornaments il has on one
side weeping willow, "Gleopatra's
Needle a monument dedicated to
Hancock, and the "Pillow of Beauty"
covered with delicate fern-like caleite
crystal, and a frosting that sparkles
like thousands of diamonds. Passing
from this chamber we come to
smaller but highly decorated room
containing the "Angel's Grotto, where
the winged tribes held their consulta-
tions, aud Il more perfect wing could
not be made than the one here sus-
pended aud formed by water and inn
pregnated with carbonate of lime.
Proceeding through another long
hail We arrive at richly decorated
room. Upon projection or stage in
this room you sit down and on look
ing below see "Solomon's Temple"
ihe cathedral and other towering coll
umns casting back their black ard
ghostly shadows, and turning your
eye upward there is seen the ''Veget-
able Garden containing perfectly
formed tunips, beets, radishes, etc.
"Onward" il the word, and We soon
reach Lake Como tiny lakelet of
genuine pure cold water, and on its
shores stands the "Grand Organ"
very large cluster of stalactites. Each
column has rich, deep, musical ro-
sonance of VARYING pitch, whose tones
are more like the breathing of an or-
gan than the metallic qualities of a
piano or xylophone. Also in these
pleasant quarters are images repre-
senting apparently Claude and Paul
inc seated side by side with their
musical instruments.
Reluctantly we leave "Lake Como
and passing through long aisle we
are ushered into the Large Room"
This large apartment has no ornamen-
tahon. 1t is the largest room yet dis
covered and most remote, 500 feet in
length, 200 feet wide and 150 high.
A large pile of powders has fallen
from the center by some terrible con-
yulsion, and it has the appearance of
being recent, so much so, that my
companion said, II don't want much
of this Tie way out of this to
Crystal Palace" is on "all fours, and
this department though last is not
least in attraction. Here gray stony
rocks blossom forth into exquisite
flowers of equalization rose, fawn-
colored and white frosted over with
formation that glisten like diamonds
Natural chandeliers are formed, and
a variety of most curious forms is
found everywhere.
Thus, it will be seen that Lehman
cave is very irregular branching in
many directions. The exact size is
not known, but no lover of art or the
mysteries of nature could tire in three
days exploration, and the specimen
gatherer" could load "prairie
schooner Passing from large cham
bers to narrow passage ways, only to
find ones self in still larger and more
extensive halls, each decorated in a
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