HOVEY’S HAND-BOOK OF The Mammoth Cave OF KENTUCKY A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE REGULATION ROUTES With Maps and Illustrations BY HORACE CARTER HOVEY, D.D. F. G. S. A. Copyright, 1909, by John P. Morton & Company, Incorporated Louisville, Kentucky JOHN P. MORTON & COMPANY Incorporated 1909 [Illustration: GUIDE MAP OF THE MAMMOTH CAVE KENTUCKY Drawn by Horace C. Hovey 1909 (From former surveys, with recent additions) _Copyright 1907 & 1909 by Horace C. Hovey_] TABLE OF APPROXIMATE DISTANCES To the Kentucky Cliffs about 380 yds. ″ Standing Rocks ″ 647 ″ ″ Giant’s Coffin ″ 875 ″ ″ Star Chamber ″ 1500 ″ ″ Ultima Thule ″ 4200 ″ ″ Limitation Hill ″ 1840 ″ ″ Angelica’s Grotto ″ 1957 ″ ″ Mammoth Dome ″ 1870 ″ ″ Echo River (A) ″ 2320 ″ ″ End of Echo River (est.) ″ 3000 ″ ″ Jessup Domes ″ 4200 ″ ″ Mary’s Vineyard ″ 6000 ″ ″ Hovey’s Cathedral (est.) ″ 9200 ″ ″ Maelstrom ″ 9600 ″ NOTE:—No instrumental survey of the whole cave has ever been made, and no exact scale can be given. The above are some of the distances as paced along the avenues. Domes, halls and pits are relatively enlarged; and rivers and pools are blackened. The data for this new Guide map is from the earlier maps of Bogert (1814), Ward (1816), Lee (1835), Bishop (1845), Blackall (1817-pub. 1899), Forwood (1875), Hovey (1887) and Call (1897), and from written and oral information by managers and guides, modified and greatly added to by the author’s own observations during the past twenty-seven years. NOTE No. 2:—In the year 1905 Max Kaemper, a German Engineer, was employed to make a complete survey exclusively for the use of the owners. Some of his suggestions are embodied in this map of 1909, and others in the separate charts for the several routes.