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Mammoth Cave

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Mammoth Cave

Vast limestone cavern in southwestern Kentucky, USA, now part of Mammoth Cave National Park (established 1941). The main cave is 6.5 km/4 mi long, and rises to a height of 38 m/125 ft; the diameter of the cavern's area is about 15 km/9 mi. It is the longest cave system in the world, with 341 km/212 mi of corridors, and is known for its stalactites and stalagmites; a subterranean stream, the Echo River, flows beneath the surface. American Indian councils were once held here.

The cave was formed as water penetrating through cracks in the limestone dissolved and removed much of the limestone ridge.



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Let us now with whatever levers and steam-engines we have at hand, cant over the sperm whale's head, so that it may lie bottom up; then, ascending by a ladder to the summit, have a peep down the mouth; and were it not that the body is now completely separated from it, with a lantern we might descend into the great Kentucky Mammoth Cave of his stomach.
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"Pray tell me anything new that has happened to a man anywhere on this globe" -- and he reads it over his coffee and rolls, that a man has had his eyes gouged out this morning on the Wachito River; never dreaming the while that he lives in the dark unfathomed mammoth cave of this world, and has but the rudiment of an eye himself.
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