A NEW CAVE DISCOVERY IN KENTUCKY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 4 September 1880, Page 3

A NEW CAVE DISCOVERY IN KENTUCKY.

. wonderful cave has recently A near Glasgow; Junction, te aa f ha 3 already been explored for a Kr- twenty-three miles in one fX called the long route, andsixin another direction, called the te e ® The avenues are very wide; shott net horses can easily be driven 4 sp t. fnr a distance of eleven miles, 'drivers, wide and very deep, are enfared on the long route. One of jountw* . ye for foatteeil miles, until aces become too narrow to admit ptuaae. fonns tlie third, or nver a (l"'which has to be explored in h i; The cave is wonderful beyond iSptioo. and far surpasses in granr!ir the 3lammoth or any cave ever discovered. Several mnramihed ins have been discovered in one of the They are reposing in stone rudely constructed, and from ®2»nces may have been in this cave Stories- They present every appear»of B2yp'* an mummiea. Great exwwnfc prevails over this very important Mr. Edwin Mortimore, of Snat-street, Louisville, Ky., purwpd three of the mummies, and has ftant now in his possession. Major M. Pf° ctor ' of Glasgow Junction, ct purchased the remainder of the Zmtes from the owner of the cave, SSTkW. The latter is, or rather a few dav3 ago, a very poor man, lu* to make a payment on a farm rfSwnty-four acres, upon which, by mere J?,font the entrance to this wonderful #ll was discovered. He obtained about rToIs cash for the mummies, and is zi offered 10,000 dols. cash for the n The entrance to the cave is within 1 town limits, and is only about two minutes' walk from the depot, which mifcas it very valuable indeed, a3 visitors Sit not be compelled to travel five miles - a jtage-coach, as they do if desirous of ~;..>r n!r the Mammoth Cave, which is five X from this town. In fact, all the celebrated caves of Kentucky are m this immediate vicinity. The surface is very ma ch broken, full of great elevations and decisions, with everything to indicate tfiilfc there were volcanic eruptions or tfafent upheavals of the earth at some iud. The newly discovered cave has Itta named the Grand Crystal Cave, and Has beautiful as its name implies. Taddera and bridges are being constructed, and Mr. J. R. Puckett, a capiat of the town, announces his intention of having a small steamboat constructed cpreaaly for the purpose of navigating its wonderful rivera.