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Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844: By a Visiter — John Shaqi

Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844: By a VisiterBullitt, Alexander Clark

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Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844: By a Visiter

Name: Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844: By a Visiter
Author: Bullitt, Alexander Clark

Bullitt, Alexander Clark

Bullitt, Alexander Clark, 1807-1868; Mammoth Cave (Ky.)

Harrodsburgh             20 miles.
Perryville               10
Frosts                   12
Young                     4
Lebanon                   7
New Market               12
Barbee                    6
Somerville                3
Carters                   5
Moss                      5
Mitchell                 12
Curls                     7
Greens                   10
Dickeys                   8
Mammoth Cave              9
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                        130 miles.


FROM GLASGOW TO MAMMOTH CAVE, via

Dickeys                  18 miles.


FROM NASHVILLE TO MAMMOTH CAVE.

Gees                      9 miles.
Tyree Springs            13
Buntons                  12
Franklin                 10
Bowling Green            20
Pattersons               12
Dripping Springs          3
Mammoth Cave              8
                         --
                         87 miles.


FROM BARDSTOWN TO MAMMOTH CAVE.

New Haven                15 miles.
McDougals                10
McAchran (Cobb's stand)  12
Bear Wallow              20
Dickeys (Prewett's Knob)  7
Mammoth Cave              9
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                         73 miles.


FROM BARDSTOWN TO MAMMOTH CAVE,
via. MUNFORDSVILLE.

McAchran (Cobb's stand)  37 miles.
Munfordsville            12
Mammoth Cave             14-1/2
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                         63-1/2 miles.


FROM GLASGOW TO MAMMOTH CAVE, via.

Bells                    18 miles.




CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I.

Mammoth Cave--Where Situated--Green River--Improved Navigation--Range
of Highlands--Beautiful Woodlands--Hotel--Romantic Dell--Mouth of the
Cave--Coldness of the Air--Lamps Lighted--Bones of a Giant--Violence
of the Wind--Lamps Extinguished--Temperature of the Cave--Lamps
Relighted--First Hopper--Grand Vestibule--Glowing Description--Audubon
Avenue--Little Bat Room--Pit two hundred and eighty feet deep--Main
Cave--Kentucky Cliffs--The Church Second Hopper--Extent of the
Saltpetre Manufacture in 1814.

CHAPTER II.

Gothic Gallery--Gothic Avenue--Good Road--Mummies--Interesting
Account of Them--Gothic Avenue, once called Haunted Chamber--Why so
named--Adventure of a Miner in former days.

CHAPTER III.

Stalagmite Pillars--The Bell--Vulcan's Furnace--Register Rooms--
Stalagmite Hall or Gothic Chapel--Devil's Arm-Chair--Elephant's
Head--Lover's Leap--Napoleon's Dome--Salts Cave--Annetti's Dome.

CHAPTER IV.

The Ball-Room--Willie's Spring--Wandering Willie--Ox-Stalls--Giant's
Coffin--Acute-Angle or Great Bend--Range of Cabins--Curative Properties
of the Cave Air long known.

CHAPTER V.

Star Chamber--Salts Room--Indian Houses--Cross Rooms--Black Chambers--A
Dinner Party--Humble Chute--Solitary Cave--Fairy Grotto--Chief City or
Temple--Lee's Description--Return to the Hotel.

CHAPTER VI.

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Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844: By a Visiter

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