The wonders of the world : $b a complete museum, descriptive and pictorial, of the wonderful phenomena and results of nature, science and artAbbott, John Loraine
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The wonders of the world : $b a complete museum, descriptive and pictorial, of the wonderful phenomena and results of nature, science and art
Abbott, John Loraine
Curiosities and wonders
“Going on from this point through Elindo’s Avenue and Washington’s Hall,
we reached another of the remarkable rooms of the cave, called the
Snowball Room. The cave is here about a hundred feet wide, ten or
fifteen feet high, and the ceiling quite even and beautifully arched.
Nature has here played most fantastic tricks. I know of no way so good
to describe this room, as to say that its walls and ceiling overhead
look like the end of some building that a score of school-boys have
completely covered over with snowballs. We examined these formations for
some time with our lamps, and then Alfred gave us the benefit of an
illumination. But of its appearance when thus lighted up, I will attempt
no description.
“We were now about seven miles from the mouth of the cave; and with
appetites sharpened by our long walk, we sat down to the dinner which
our host had sent along for us. It was a magnificent dining-saloon in
which we were seated. Taylor’s saloon on Broadway is splendid, and has
dazzled and bewildered multitudes, when they first entered it; but
neither Taylor, nor prince, nor potentate, ever built a room so gorgeous
as that in which we were seated. None but the God who built the skies,
and bent and decorated the arch above us, could build another comparable
to it.
“The Snowball Room is at the entrance of an avenue more extensive and
beautiful than any other in the cave. This is called Cleveland’s
Cabinet, and is altogether indescribable. It is about five rods wide and
two miles long! Think of its dimensions a moment! About as long as
Broadway from the Battery to Union Square, and with walls, not of brick,
granite and marble, shaped and graven by art and man’s device, but with
walls and ceiling above covered all over with the exquisite and
beautiful workmanship of its divine builder.
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