Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 422
crystals of gypsum,reaching almost the size of a man. (Our illus-tration gives some idea of these.) Some are fivefeet long and nearly a foot thick. Finally, a sec-ond and then a third grotto are reached, whichends the series. Within somewhat restricted distances, thesethree grottoes offer quite… … VARIOUS FORMS OF CRYSTALS: I AND 2, DIAMOND; 3 AND 4, GARNET. whose upper faces are covered with a white crys-talline deposit, as if, despite the heat that reignsin these caverns, a fall of snow rested eternallythere. . . . Finally, all these crystals are plantedon a hard and sonorous crust that…
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