Celebrated American Caves PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xiv. other american caverns. Judges' Cave--Rimsbury Caverns--Moodus Xoises--Pictured Cave of La Crosse--Pickett's Cave, or the Cave of the Winds--Cave of Cacahuaniilpa--Canadian Caverns--Cliff-Dwellers--Conclusion. There are hundreds of imperfectly explored caves concealed amid the forests and crags of sparsely inhabited regions in the Western and Southern States. It is obviously impracticable to mention, however, every one that may even have acquired local celebrity. Published accounts are frequently too meager to be interesting, or else are exaggerated beyond belief. Hence it is difficult to obtain reliable data concerning some that are really noteworthy. The author takes this opportunity to say that he will gladly welcome information as to any portion of subterranean America, and may make use of it in some future publication. It is particularly desirable to collect facts concerning the various forms of cavern life, and those bearing on the manners and customs of the ancient lords of the soil. Many of the most interesting problems of geology and arehscology are yet to be solved by secrets now locked up in the bosom of unexplored caverns. It remains, in this concluding chapter, to group together accounts of several caves, alike merely in not having been already described in these pages. the judges' cave. The Judges' Cave, near New Haven, Conn., may properly be mentioned among celebrated American caverns; although, strictly, it is not a cave, but merely a shelter among some huge fragments of trap rock. Here, however, from May 15th to August 19th, 1601, Cols. Whalley and Goffe, two of the Regicides who once sat in judgment on King Charles L, and whom British spies were hunting to the death, found a safe refuge. The snot is a...