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xxx-mus suggests many useful ideas of forms xxx ornaments to the architect. The stone is not xxx-illiant except when broken when the crystalization xxx apparent. The whole of this region is limestone xxx contains many similar caves of smaller size. The only remains found in the Mammoth Cave were xxx bones of some gigantic human being & xxx-me of the bones of a mammoth & a wooden xx-wl found by an early explorer near a spring supposed to be of Indian manufacture. xxx Mummies said to have been found there were discovered in a cave some three or four miles distant (Long's) --

May 19 - Left the cave for Bell's & at 12 o'clock found myself in the stage for Nashville in company with an old gentlemen of evident gastronomic taste. The country, which I first saw the next morning, resembles a prarie tho' of less extent & varied with clumps of trees & well cultivated farms xxx The road is a fine one & we travelled rapidly not withstanding the rain which fell in torrents until unclear-- Until arriving within about twenty five miles of Nashville the scenery is uninteresting - At this point we descend from a ridge of hills and enter a most beautifully undulating country covered with farms, plantations in the highest state of cultivation xxx neat airy white & stone coloured dwelling embedded in the beautiful natural park's which I had seen first in Kentucky but which here exist, if anything, in greater luxuriance -- The houses partake of the cottage style two stories high covering a large space surrounded by porches which protect them