Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 - By a Visiter
Bullitt, Alexander Clark
English
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RAMBLES IN THE MAMMOTH CAVE,
DURING THE YEAR 1844,
BY A VISITER.
By
Alexander Clark Bullitt
LOUISVILLE, KY.:
MORTON & GRISWOLD.
1845.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by
MORTON & GRISWOLD,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Kentucky.
Printed by MORTON & GRISWOLD.
ERRATA.
Page 11th, fifth line from the bottom; for faltering, read pattering.
Page 46th, eighth line from the top—"They are well furnished, and,without question, would with good and comfortable accommodations,pure air, and uniform temperature, cure the pulmonary consumption.The invalids in the Cave ought to be cured, &c.,"
read,
They are well furnished, and, without question, if good andcomfortable accommodations, pure air, and uniform temperature, couldcure the pulmonary consumption, the invalids in the Cave ought to becured.
Page 101, last line: read, "It has no brother: it is like no brother."
PUBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT.
To meet the calls so frequently made upon as by intelligent visitorsto our City, for some work descriptive of the Mammoth Cave, we are, atlength, enabled to present the public a succinct, but instructivenarrative of a visit to this "Wonder of Wonders," from the pen of agentleman, who, without professing to have explored ALL that iscurious or beautiful or sublime in its vast recesses, has yet seenevery thing that has been seen by others, and has described enough toquicken and enlighten the curiosity of those who have never visitedit.
Aware of the embarrassment which most persons experience who designvisiting the Cave, owing to the absence of any printed itinerary ofthe various routes leading to it, we have supplied, in the presentvolume, this desideratum, from information received from reliablepersons residing on the different roads here enumerated. The road fromLouisville to the Cave, and thence to Nashville, is graded the entiredistance, and the greater part of it M'Adamized. From Louisville tothe mouth of Salt river, twenty miles, the country is level, with arich alluvial soil, probably at some former period the bed of a lake.A few miles below the former place and extending to the latter, a
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