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Show Mammoth Cave in 1812. Visitors to the Mammoth cave in Kentucky, whose attention is attracted by the brilliant arches of crystal, by the amazing echoes, and by the diversity di-versity of the rock formation, may not remember that this particular locality lo-cality was once of great practical benefit to the country. For it was by reason of its immense deposits of saltpeter, salt-peter, used in the manufacture of gunpowder gun-powder during the War of 1812, that the spot was first given notoriety. |