Décrit une visite de grotte Mammoth dans le Kentucky. Transcription : ?tis il [Hérodote] qui dit ?ǣthey ont leurs femmes en commun, ? (Socialistes) clairement ? Quelques bons pourraient être affectés par un sermon dans la grotte Mammoth. Tous sont maintenant d'un demi-mille de la grotte de la bouche. Passant plus de banques d'terre, les voies de boeufs, des gravures de roues, fait trente ans agone ; de plus, le lessivage des trémies cuves, tuyaux, profilés, et la pompe, comme nous sommes dans le quartier gothique de galeries. D'un côté ou de l'ici sont des grottes, l'autre vers la gauche, le sable est étouffé mais penetratible-mémoire pour l'espace, que vers la droite, intitulé l'un gothique

• Contributeur: The Picture Art Collection / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: MAKPTR
• Taille du fichier: 14,3 MB (665,8 KB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 1814 x 2756 px | 15,4 x 23,3 cm | 6 x 9,2 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 17 avril 2015

Informations supplémentaires

Cette image appartient au domaine public, ce qui signifie que le droit d’auteur a expiré ou que le titulaire du droit d’auteur a renoncé à ses droits. Les frais facturés par Alamy couvrent l’accès à la copie haute résolution de l’image.

Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.

Describes a visit to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Transcription: ?tis he [Herodotus] who says ?ǣthey had their Women in common, ? (Socialists clearly) ? some good might be effected by a Sermon in the Mammoth Cave. All are now half a mile or so from the Cave mouth. Passing more banks of nitrous earth, tracks of oxen, prints of wheels, made thirty years agone; by more Hoppers, leaching vats, pipes, pump frames, and the like, we are in the Gothic Galleries. On either side here are caves, the one to the left, sand-choked is but penetratible for brief space, that to the right, entitled the Gothic Avenue, joins the former by a gallery, stretching sheer across the Main Cave. We are now half a mile or so from the cave mouth. Reserving the wonders of Gothic Avenue for future exploration, we held on down to the Ball Room, thus named from its availability for subterranean terpsichorean gymnastics. A rock orchestra, a gallery stretching back towards the level of the embankment by the Gothic Avenue; would afford facility either for lookers on or performers in the bobbing, hopping, jigging, sliding, shuffling, dodging, oscillating business yclept dancing. Here follows a broad level road onwards. On the left is Willie ?s spring, a pretty fluted niche, water worn, and small basin. Tis so called from a clerical ass, who fiddle in hand under strolled through the country, under the plagiarisied title of ?ǣ Wandering Willie; ? and in sentimental boobyism, chose to rest a night here. And just beyond are corn-cobs scattered, remnants left by the oxen employed by the miners; and also a steep niche, from cave ceiling to put, perhaps thirty feet in depth, continual water plashings dripping downwards into a large but inaccessible room. Well Cave and Rocky Cave are left behind; and now looming out of the blackness on the right we see Giant ?s Coffin. A huge stone Sarcophagus shaped mass, so distinct that mouldings could be seen about its lid; ? fit burial spot for Polypheme after his love-