INTERESTING FACTS.
- 1. Accidents of no kind have ever occurred in the Mammoth Cave.
- 2. Visiters, going in or coming out of the Cave, are not liable to contract colds; on the contrary, colds are commonly relieved by a visit in the Cave.
- 3. No impure air exists in any part of the Cave.
- 4. Reptiles, of no description, have ever been seen in the Cave; on the contrary, they, as well as quadrupeds, avoid it.
- 5. Combustion is perfect in all parts of the Cave.
- 6. Decomposition and consequent putrefaction are unobservable in all parts of the Cave.
- 7. The water of the Cave is of the purest kind; and, besides fresh water, there are one or two sulphur springs.
- 8. There are two hundred and twenty-six Avenues in the Cave; forty-seven Domes; eight Cataracts, and twenty-three Pits.
- 9. The temperature of the Cave is 59° Fahrenheit, and remains so, uniformly, winter and Summer.
- 10. No sound, not even the loudest peal of thunder, is heard one quarter of a mile in the Cave.
The author of "Rambles in the Mammoth Cave," has written a scientific account of the Cave, embracing its Geology, Mineralogy, etc., which we could not, in time, insert in this publication.