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<b>Identifier</b>: baconsdescriptiv00baco <b>Title</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidbaconsdescriptiv00baco">Bacon's descriptive handbook of America ..</a> <b>Year</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1866">1866</a> (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1860">1860s</a>) <b>Authors</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorBacon__George_Washington___from_old_catalog_">Bacon, George Washington. [from old catalog]</a> <b>Subjects</b>: <b>Publisher</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherLondon_and_New_York__G__W__Bacon_and_co">London and New York, G. W. Bacon and co</a> <b>Contributing Library</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorThe_Library_of_Congress">The Library of Congress</a> <b>Digitizing Sponsor</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorSloan_Foundation">Sloan Foundation</a> <b>View Book Page</b>: <a href="https://archive.org/stream/baconsdescriptiv00baco/baconsdescriptiv00baco#page/n343/mode/1up" rel="nofollow">Book Viewer</a> <b>About This Book</b>: <a href="https://archive.org/details/baconsdescriptiv00baco" rel="nofollow">Catalog Entry</a> <b>View All Images</b>: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidbaconsdescriptiv00baco">All Images From Book</a> Click here to <a href="https://archive.org/stream/baconsdescriptiv00baco/baconsdescriptiv00baco#page/n343/mode/1up" rel="nofollow"><b>view book online</b></a> to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. <b>Text Appearing Before Image:</b> <i>; the latter is 700feet high, and strikes a projecting ledge of rock half-way,which causes it to dash into spray and mist. CAVES, NATURAL BRIDGES, Etc.The Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky, the largest knowncave in the world, is an object of the greatest interest totravellers. It is said to have been penetrated by ex-plorers to the distance of ten miles. The passages of thisgreat cavern are in the aggregate 150 miles in length, andit has 256 known chambers. The thermometer standsconstantly at 59° Fahr. Among the most noted chambersjs the Methodist Church, semicircular in form, with anatural pulpit. About fifty years ago the place was usedfor religious worship, and occasionally now services are 320 DESCRIPTIVE HANDBOOK OF AMERICA. held within it. The Gothic Avenue, reached by a flightof stairs 40 feet wide, 15 feet high, and two miles long,leads to the Gothic Chapel, 80 feet long by 50 wide.Columns of immense size block up the two ends, andtwo rows of smaller pillars extend the entire length.</i> <b>Text Appearing After Image:</b> <i>GOTHIC CHAPEL, HAiliTOTH CAVE. When lighted up, the scene is one of surprisinggrandeur. The Star Chamber, when seen withoutlights, reveals perfectly the meaning of visible darkness.We seemed to feel the dense blackness against our eye- CAVES. 321 balls, said a traveller describing the cave, an object,however near, was not in the faintest degree visible.When the chamber was lighted np, we seemed to be in adeep rock-walled pit, gazing np at the starry firmament.The stalactites and stalagmites throughout the cave are ofgreat beauty and of immense size. A river of fresh andpure water runs through it which is navigable by boats ;and in it are found fish which are quite white and eyeless,and others which, though possessed of eyes, are yetblind. The Wyandotte Cave, in Indiana, is almost as won-derful a place as the Mammoth Cave. It is several milesin length, and is divided into magnificent chambers andgalleries, glittering with stalactites and other calcareousconcretions. Epsom Salts Cave, i</i> <b>Note About Images</b> <i>Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.</i>