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ADELSBERG (Slovene Postojina)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 190 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADELSBERG (Slovene Postojina) , a See also:market-See also:town in See also:Carniola, See also:Austria, 30 M. S.S.W. of See also:Laibach by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 3636, mostly Slovene. About a mile from the town is the entrance to the famous stalactite cavern of Adelsberg, the largest and most magnificent in See also:Europe. The cavern is divided into four grottoes, with two lateral ramifications which reach to the distance of about a mile and a See also:half from the entrance. The See also:river Poik enters the cavern 6o ft. below its mouth, and is heard murmuring in its recesses. In the Kaiser-See also:Ferdinand grotto, the third of the See also:chain, a See also:great See also:ball is annually held on Whit-See also:Monday, when the chamber is brilliantly illuminated. The See also:Franz-See also:Joseph-Elisabeth grotto, the largest of the four, and the farthest from the entrance, is 665 ft. in length, 64o ft. in breadth and more than too ft. high. Besides the imposing proportions of its See also:chambers, the cavern is remarkable for the variegated beauty of its stalactite formations, some resembling transparent drapery, others waterfalls, trees, animals or human beings, the more See also:grotesque being called by various fanciful appellations. These subterranean wonders were known as far back as 1213, but the cavern remained undiscovered in See also:modern times until 1816, and it is only in still more See also:recent times that its vast extent has been fully ascertained and explored. The See also:total length of the passages is' now estimated at over 5i M.

The connexion with the Ottokar grotto was established in 18go. The Magdalene grotto, about an See also:

hour's walk to the See also:north, is celebrated for the extraordinary subterranean amphibian, the See also:proteus anguinus, first discovered there. It is about a See also:foot in length, lives on snails and See also:worms and is provided with both lungs and gills.

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