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from the confusion wild the ledges of rocks tower above one another in grand masses to the ceiling or roof which is nearly flat & appears as tho' laid over this unclear--chasm chaotic-? by some cunning architect - beyond impenetrable darkness and all around are scattered the enormous fragments casting shadows of alarming form & magnitude ? unclear seems a bit evidence for gigantic spirits & but little imagination is required to believe their presence, for the form of an immense rock has given it the name of the giant's coffin -- Passing two houses of stone which had been erected for the residence of consumptive invalids who for the sake of a restoration to health were willing to become denizens of this dismal abode for some months, the atmosphere having at one period been supposed beneficial to patients of that unclear you arrive at the "Star Chamber" a portion of the main cave which has been thus named from the circumstance of certain crystals or white substances reflected from the unclear of the dark mass of the roof giving the idea of a starry sky, the deception is remarkable. -- Beyond the cave increased in rugged & apalling grandness unclear the many scenes of great picturesque masses