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قراءة كتاب Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills
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Cave Regions
of the
Ozarks and Black Hills
BY
LUELLA AGNES OWEN.
Membre titulaire de la Société de Spéléologie, and Fellow of the American Geographical Society.
CINCINNATI.
THE EDITOR PUBLISHING CO.
1898.
The illustrations for this volume are from photographs by the following artists:
The Views of Marble Cave, by Stone & De Groff, Warrensburg, Missouri.
The Tower of Babel, The Chimes, The Knife Blade, The Needle, The Bridal Veil, by Meddaugh, of Leadville, So. Dakota.
Top of Glacier, by L. W. Marble, Wind Cave, So. Dakota.
White Onyx Masses, Fairies' Palace, by J. W. Pike, Hot Springs, So. Dakota.
The Wilderness Pinery, by D. Benton Miller, Alton, Missouri.
Approaching Deadwood, by H. R. Locke & Co., Deadwood, So. Dakota.
Copyrighted
The Editor Publishing Company.
1898.
Entrance to Marble Cave. Page 25.TO
MY MOTHER
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER. | PAGE. | |
| I | A General View | 1 |
| II | Marble Cave | 25 |
| III | Marble Cave Continued | 43 |
| IV | Fairy Cave and Powell Cave | 58 |
| V | Other Stone County Caves | 73 |
| VI | Oregon County Caves | 82 |
| VII | The Grand Gulf | 95 |
| VIII | The Black Hills and Bad Lands | 103 |
| IX | Wind Cave | 113 |
| X | Wind Cave Continued | 127 |
| XI | " " " | 141 |
| XII | " " Concluded | 151 |
| XIII | The Onyx Caves | 162 |
| XIV | Crystal Cave | 175 |
| XV | " " Concluded | 183 |
| XVI | Conclusion | 211 |
Cave Regions of
THE OZARKS AND BLACK HILLS.
CHAPTER I.
A GENERAL VIEW.
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"O'er mountains bright with snow and light,
We crystal hunters speed along, While grots, and caves, and icy waves, Each instant echo to our song; And when we meet with stores of gems We grudge not kings their diadems." —Thomas Moore. |
The southern half of the State of Missouri, and the Black Hills of South Dakota, offer exceptionally delightful regions for the study of caves, or Speleology as it has been named, and the sister sciences of geology and geography at the same time. In fact it is impossible to study either without giving attention to the other two, and therefore, instead of being separate sciences, they are the three branches of a great scientific trinity.
The regions here referred to enjoy the advantage, and at the same time suffer the disadvantage, of being comparatively little known to the ever restless tide of tourists who naturally hail with pleasure the announcement that some easily