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invitation -- He is a veteran of 74 & has [crossed out: resided in his present residence for many] never been a day absent from his present residence for years -- He is a man of good sense, some humour & a disposition to accumulate, the first of which qualities united to his venerable years have rendered "old man Bell" an oracle - With a gruff kind of command he invited to take some of his peach brandy for which he is famous & I bear witness to the excellence of the preparation as well as to the admirable supper which followed for this is a land literally flowing in milk & honey, venison of tenderest quality & other delicacies of the wilderness graced the board to which we were ordered in the same style as to the brandy -- After supper the boy was called to take my trunk & a candle a hint to which I understood to me "go to to bed & acted therein -- In the morning a negro drove me to the Mammoth Cave hotel & soon after being provided with with a guide I proceeded to visit that great natural curiosity. Proceeding a few hundred yards down a richly wooded ravine you arrive at a large cavity in the hillside from which so cold a draught of air issues that the change startles you It is suddenly