The book Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, During the Year 1844 was written by author [bullitt, Alexander Clark], 1807-1868. [from Old Catalog] Here you can read free online of Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, During the Year 1844 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, During the Year 1844 a good or bad book?
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But, be its compo- sition what it may, it is certain its effects upon the spirits aud bodily powers of visiters, are ex- tremely exhilarating ; and that it is not less salu- brious than enlivening. The nitre diggers were a famously healthy set of men ; it w as a com- mon and humane practice to employ laborers of enfeebled constitutions, who w^ere soon restored to health and strength, though kept at constant labour; and more joyous, merry fellows were never seen. The oxen, of which several were ...kept day and night in the Cave, hauling the nitrous earth, were after a month or two of toil, in as fine condition for the shambles, as if fatten- ed in the stall. The ordinary visiter, though rambling a dozen hours or more, over paths of the roughest and most difficult kind, is seldom conscious of fatigue, until he returns to the upper air ; and then it seems to him, at least in the 48 MAMMOTH CAVE. summer season, that he has exchanged the at- mosphere of paradise for that of a charnel warm- ed by steam — all without is so heavy, so dank, so dead, so mephitic.
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