The Green Forest tribune., 1892-09-08

Kings Bed Chamber, a rocky re-
cess with curtains of the most ar
tistictly designed tapestry falling
in gentle folds around the royal |
resting place, and surrounded by
great column s standing like grim
sentinels to guard the royal head. |
Clambering up the rocks short
distance we come to the Humboldt
G Glacier crystalline river, flowing,
or seeming to flow, in silent majesty
on until II breaks over rocky cliff
and forms Il gigantic iceberg
Near by is the Snow Bank, 80
suggestive that our minds revert to
our school days, when we bombar3-
ed our fellows with missiles of snow.
Her. are fluted columns most ex-
quisitely carved, discolorod by
time, lying prope upon the floor Of
the cavern, where they were
thrown by some great convulsion
ofnature, and upon them small
snowey columns have formed.
For the lovers Of music here is the
pipe organ, Il series Of attenuated
sheets OF crystal, which, when
struck, give forth melodious sounds
capable of being converted into
music by one with quick ear and
eye. All styles of architecture may
here be found, presenting designs
which incompetent man we'll use as
models for no conception Of t:,e hu-
man mind can surpass, if they can,
equal them.
There on an almost inaccessible
hight is an impregnable Norman
Gas tie, with towers and battlemcnts
! complete where Il feudal lord COIN
placenly surveys the little world
which yields him ..nwillingly feally.
There arc Chinese pagodas and
mosques with minarets; affairs and
idols and shrincs and royal thrones;
lines of delicate drapery SO fragile
that they seem to tremble with the
slightest breath, and large areas
OF Enthusiastically trescoed roof where
frail tilaments twine and inter
twine intricacy inconceivab!e; gem
incrusted walls and folds of flow
ing curtaining; fairy-lil<e recesses
were elves assemble, and great
ambers where chaos regns IN Il
world of massive boulders and
broken columns, whose pride,
! when they stood erect in ages past
!. but the dumb walls hold in remem
brance; u world of beauty pendant
T from the ceiling, which exhibits
the most artistic tracery, a world |
of beauty rising from the floor in
magnificent colums and the finest
types of Greek statuary. But why
multiply facts and tancies when
these exquisite conceptions far
transcend the power of words to
depict?
Beyond this the south chamber
extends bout halt mile, but it is
more inaccessible and much less
treqnenied than the Elysian Fields
Yet it is not devoid of interest. 1t
is made more difficult OF access by
the great clay banks which mast be
surmounted, aud it is really
amusing to see more dainty men,
bers OF the party make false
step and go sprawling in the mud.
III the south chamber we find the
only evidence of animal life in the
cave The sides of some cf the !
clay banks arc covered tracks,
great and small, some Of which
we suppose to be those of bears
or panthers, but as no other evil
dence could be found we could i
not determine whether they ori-
gin or the work centuries ago.
The christalization is here of
the same type as in the Elysian
Feds, but not so abundant. Sew
eral small rivulets are here fonnd,
the only running water in the cave.
The air is pure and invigorating
throughout, which leads to the sup
position that there is another en-
trance somewhere, but if it exists
it has never been discovered.
In stupendousness of arches, in
beauty OF form and coloring, in per-
fection of chystalization, in varle-
ty Of queer ccncelts and fancitul
forms, none can excel and few can't
equal tho Diamond Cave of New
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