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Title: Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844
By a Visiter

Author: Alexander Clark Bullitt

Release Date: July 6, 2005 [EBook #16220]

Language: English

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RAMBLES IN THE MAMMOTH CAVE,

DURING THE YEAR 1844,

BY A VISITER.

By

Alexander Clark Bullitt

LOUISVILLE, KY.:
MORTON & GRISWOLD.
1845.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by
MORTON & GRISWOLD,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Kentucky.

Printed by MORTON & GRISWOLD.

ERRATA.

Page 11th, fifth line from the bottom; for _faltering_, read pattering.

Page 46th, eighth line from the top--"They are well furnished, and,
without question, _would with_ good and comfortable accommodations,
pure air, and uniform temperature, cure the pulmonary consumption.
_The_ invalids in the Cave ought to be cured, &c.,"

_read_,

They are well furnished, and, without question, _if_ good and
comfortable accommodations, pure air, and uniform temperature, _could_
cure the pulmonary consumption, _the_ invalids in the Cave ought to be
cured.

Page 101, last line: read, "It has no brother: it _is like_ no brother."

PUBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT.

To meet the calls so frequently made upon as by intelligent visitors
to our City, for some work descriptive of the Mammoth Cave, we are, at
length, enabled to present the public a succinct, but instructive
narrative of a visit to this "Wonder of Wonders," from the pen of a
gentleman, who, without professing to have explored ALL that is
curious or beautiful or sublime in its vast recesses, has yet seen
every thing that has been seen by others, and has described enough to
quicken and enlighten the curiosity of those who have never visited
it.

Aware of the embarrassment which most persons experience who design
visiting the Cave, owing to the absence of any printed itinerary of