Show A WONDERFUL CAVE alie orant natural in county taxa thirty miles northwest of in finnoy county Is a wonderful but comparatively unknown its entrance is a rent in the solid rock that underlies llila section feet and is situated alic summit of wo of ninny similar hills perhaps feet above tho surrounding valley tho main haft of this cavo begins a sharp of several feet and extends in nearly a direct line at varying levels for fully half a mile apparently in the tumultuous als which lifted these hills from tho surrounding level a great opening was left and from its roof immense quantities of rock fell into tho center of tho cavo A solid irregularly arched roo has been left from to feet from alie original bloor tho mass of rock upon alio bloor is from 20 to 40 feet deep and makes progress difficult A few feet from tho begins ilio largest chamber or amphitheater this magnificent is more than feet in width gradually narrowing at cither caid in iu center gatho grain lly roof is one of the grandest columns of formation ever i bom bloor to anil must bo fully fuel abobo iho fallen rocks it is feet in circumference and nt lie upper end feet tharo arc several of these columns of varying aizo sizo supporting one fallen column broken in three pieces of eix to ten feet each and nine feet in cir shows their solid and might serve as models for lie broken pillars of the acropolis arom alio side of this largest gallery and it right an agles reaching a passage from ten 0 o twenty feet in height and varying width tor a quarter of a mile this passage is upon ft level with the original bloor of alio main shaft and its ceiling ha not fallen but is now incrust cd anil bc by innumerable and formations near alic farther end of aliis gallery is a spring of delicious pure water oozing from alic rocks and making its way in alic same mysterious manner into alio rocky heart of mother earth this sido chamber is called spring arbor and many exquisite of stalactites have been carried from it returning to alic cathedral as tho gallery of alio column is called we proceeded to explore tho main shaft A beautiful cascade perhaps twenty tact high has been formed in pur ewhite limestone as perfect and suggestive in execution as jack frost himself with a 1 new easland waterfall AH tho and ceiling are by the most delicato dc licato and workmanship wor manship in hero the work of alio little coral is there the delicate tracery j il so line and translucent hint it is difficult not lo 10 ascribe it to frost in ita most delicate and varied mood one expansion of the passage ia filled with a score or more of stalagmites mites from two to ten or twelve feet in height I 1 as so many monuments of the i dead alio and ceiling are ot exquisite workmanship a fit setting to the solemn and beautiful benu wit liin which leads one to speak in low tones and tread softly as if on sacred ground upon alic wall benr Is suspended some drapery in stone thit crould bo the admiration mi ration and despair of a sculptor lor j double nud triple folds of stalactite i quarter of an inch in thickness and a yard wide hang thirty feet no support except from above i beyond this Is perhaps alic most ex 1 beautiful grotto of the many which beom incomparable ceiling walls aud even bloor anro willi a fretwork of dazzling brightness which reminds one of alio finest work of alio silversmith or again the window work of the frost hero and ceiling and bloor are united by columns as clear and transparent BS crystal and natures magic from attic claro of day anil the noise and distractions of man has wrought her most intricate and beautiful workmanship A candle I 1 placed as fr f r one of these groups as alio arm could illuminated a wonderful fairy bower shining through all alie rich tracery of stone language can hardly paint to imagination the beauty of the scene and one would love to sit for hours and trace delicate outlines and exquisite details Culver tm TX news |