[Abel-tasman] from Upper Canada, who was one

[Cambia Oehler]

Ome to us till the next day. In one room we
found an excellent
spring of water, which boiled up as if to slake our thirst, then sunk
into the mountain, and was seen no more. In another room was a noble
pillar, called the TOWER OF BABEL. It is composed entirely of
stalactites
of lime, or, as the appearance would seem to suggest, of petrified
water.

It is about thirty feet in diameter, and a little

more than ninety feet in circumference, and not far from thirty feet
high. There are probably millions of stalactites in this
one pillar.
Thus we wandered on in this world within a world, till we had visited
twelve very beautiful rooms, and as many creeping places, and had now
arrived at the end,--a distance from our entrance of between
twenty-four and twenty-five hundred feet; or, what is about its equal,
half a mile from
the mouth. We here found ourselves exceedingly fatigued; but our torches
forbade us to tarry, and we
once more turned our lingering steps towards

the common world. When we arrived
again at Washington Hall, one of our company three times discharged a
pistol, whose report was truly deafening; and as the sound
reverberated and echoed
through one room after another till it

died away in distance, it seemed like the moanings of spirits. We
continued our wandering steps till we arr
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