Notes On the West Indies Including Observations Relative to the Creoles And Sl
Notes On the West Indies Including Observations Relative to the Creoles And Sl
George Pinckard
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stream. A few soft rays, gleaming from above, silvered over the surface, and exhibited all the purity of this limpid current : while the sky, which appeared at a circular opening, cut through the soil and the solid rock, to the depth of thirty or forty fathoms, resembled the pale moon, or the sun divested of his effulgent beams. Together with our artificial lights, the mild rays from this opening, penetrating to the very bottom of the cave, displayed the hanging- tubes of stalactites, and the v...arious surrounding petrifactions, in a manner highly interesting and picturesque. " Here incrustations strike the eyes : There spangled domes, with lustre bright, Beam down an artificial light ; Whence pensile hang, in gothic show, Descending to the sands below, Fantastic forms——. " After drinking of the pellucid stream, and examining the pendent vaults, the arches, and recesses around, we proceeded onwards to a considerable distance beyond the rivulet, until the broken path became more and more intri- cate, and the gloomy cavern seemed to close upon us in endless and impenetrable obscurity.
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