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Scientific American, Vol. 61, No. 16 (1889) (1889)

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om of Pit No. 2 to be 37 feet be- possible to craw] down into the Bottomless Pit for a projections that mark suecessive drainage levels. There are five such levels, or tiers, in Mammoth Cave. low the ledge of observation. But on illuminating it short way and thus cross to the bridge. But it seemed… … Entering therefore a rift in the rocks pointing City as being but 450 ft. long, 130 wide, with a circumference of about 1,500 ft., and an area of about back toward the pits, we had no great trouble in which, after several attempts, Mr. Hains succeeded in reaching what proved to be the Bottomless…

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