| Show in connection with some gentlemen from new york who are here buying asp asphaltum halLUM lands I 1 have ex explored lored some we of the noted aves of this amondson mond son chanly yesterday I 1 explored what is known as the Hi hundred indred dome cave about six miles east of mammoth cave in it I 1 found undoubted evidences of a race of human beings of a great grea antiquity in niches of the cave I 1 counted over 2000 mummified skeletons or bodies of what must have been a large and very superior race of men evidently dating back beyond our bi history tory of adam and the garden nf f eden many thousands of years the me bodies are in an excellent state of preservation and I 1 intend to remove about ten of them at once to boston for the benefit of the scientific world the hundred dome cave is one of the greatest curiosities in the known world As its name implies it consists of hundreds of domes in some places over met feet in height beautiful pillars of alabaster and stalagmites mites and stalactites add to the embellishment then there is a vast subterranean lake fed by a subterranean river of many miles in extent the lake is filled with eyeless fish and eyeless turtles I 1 have Ibave secured numerous specimens which I 1 now have in a tank at the house of oft T R me McBeat beatts ls the circuit J judge of this district ky is his address dr woods the postmaster at litchfield X ky near here and M J can V of cannon fc cunningh cunningmam Cunning bam m mer merchants chanis of litchfield accompanied me e on my tour of exploration of these ancient eaves and will wil cheerfully testify to all the facts above mentioned 97 |
