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.
TABLE OF DISTANCES.
| FROM LOUISVILLE TO MAMMOTH CAVE. | |
| Medley's | 10 miles. |
| Mouth Salt River | 10 |
| Trueman's | 8 |
| Haycraft's | 7 |
| Elizabethtown | 9 |
| Nolin | 9 |
| Lucas | 11 |
| Munfordsville | 10 |
| Mammoth Cave | 14½ |
| 88½ miles. | |
| FROM LEXINGTON TO MAMMOTH CAVE. | |
| Harrodsburgh | 20 miles. |
| Perryville | 10 |
| Frosts | 12 |
| Young | 4 |
| Lebanon | 7 |
| New Market | 12 |
| Barbee | 6 |
| Somerville | 3 |
| Carters | 5 |
| Moss | 5 |
| Mitchell | 12 |
| Curls | 7 |
| Greens | 10 |
| Dickeys | 8 |
| Mammoth Cave | 9 |
| 130 miles. | |
| FROM GLASGOW TO MAMMOTH CAVE, via | |
| Dickeys | 18 miles. |
| FROM NASHVILLE TO MAMMOTH CAVE. | |
| Gees | 9 miles. |
| Tyree Springs | 13 |
| Buntons | 12 |
| Franklin | 10 |
| Bowling Green | 20 |
| Pattersons | 12 |
| Dripping Springs | 3 |
| Mammoth Cave | 8 |
| 87 miles. | |
| FROM BARDSTOWN TO MAMMOTH CAVE. | |
| New Haven | 15 miles. |
| McDougals | 10 |
| McAchran (Cobb's stand) | 12 |
| Bear Wallow | 20 |
| Dickeys (Prewett's Knob) | 7 |
| Mammoth Cave | 9 |
| 73 miles. | |
| FROM BARDSTOWN TO MAMMOTH CAVE, via. MUNFORDSVILLE. | |
| McAchran (Cobb's stand) | 37 miles. |
| Munfordsville | 12 |
| Mammoth Cave | 14½ |
| 63½ miles. | |
| FROM GLASGOW TO MAMMOTH CAVE, via. | |
| Bells | 18 miles. |