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Show tViui,lrtul Caearnl. The I'.v anston lt;!si,:r, in the course of an interesting article ou the situation situa-tion at the Victoria iniuiiiR camp, says; "Auionti other discoveries made by Mr. l'oxton and companions were two caves which probably outrival the famous Mammoth cave of Kentucky. The caves are on Itrush creek, and, as far as in known, have never been explored. ex-plored. Messrs. 1'exton and Ilrooks ftiloreil the larger one to a distance of liloo feet. Tho interior wis a etic- j cession of chambers of (lillerent di- mensiotis, nome of which were two and three hundred feet hi(ih and as many (iiiiart). The openings between the chambers were so small that it was necessary to crawl through on all fours, tho walls of most of the chambers cham-bers were of that stalactite formation which, in reflecting the glare of a torch, zave everything a wierd and uncanuy aspect. |