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humility" where the proud must stoop double. From the infernal regions you walk three miles thro' an arched & tortuous rocky avenue over pointed & broken rock to the "snow ball room" where the crystalization of gypsum on the ceiling gives it the effect of an incrustation of snowballs -- Gypsum formations are only found beyond the river the portion of the cave being of darker limestone -- No living creatures are found within the subterranean world except a few bats who seek shelter in the mouth of the cave during winter, a species of rats who frequent the main cave & who as well as the fish found in the river are of a lighter grey color than their brothers of the daylight world. The fish found in the river are small, colourless & without eyes. There are a few spiders & crawfish of a like unclear here -- I returned from my tour of the cave, having been about 8 hours and having walked about 18 miles, the effect of so much exercise being much less fatiguing than the same amount above ground, owing probably to the equable & agreeable temperature all parts of the cave at all seasons being about 60 degrees Fahrenheit. -- Another cave in the vicinity ("White's Cave") contains more of the stalactite & stalagmite formations - which in its