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Dobsina. Pop. (190o) 557. In the neighbourhood is the celebrated Aggtelek or Baradla cavern, one of the largest and most remarkable stalactite grottos in See also:

EUROPE

Europe. It has a length, together with its ramifications, of over 5 See also:

MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles, and is formed of two caverns—one known for several centuries, and another discovered by the naturalist Adolf Schmidl in 1856. Two entrances give See also:

ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

access to the grotto, an old one extremely narrow, and a new one, made in 189o, through which the exploration of the cavern can be made in about 8 See also:

HOURS, CANONICAL

hours, See also:

HALF

half the See also:

time it took before. The cavern is composed of a 1'abyrinth of passages and large and small halls, and is traversed by a stream. In these caverns there are numerous stalactite structures, which, from their curious and fantastic shapes, have received such names as the See also:

IMAGE (Lat. imago, perhaps from the same root as imitari, copy, imitate)

Image of the Virgin, the See also:

MOSAIC (corresponding to Lat. opus musivum, from Gr. µovoeiov, an artificial grotto often decorated with mosaics; the word is only found in the sense of mosaic in late Greek, which generally uses k oXI yrlµa)

Mosaic See also:

ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

Altar, &c. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal parts are the Paradies with the finest See also:

STALACTITES (Gr. (rraXaicros, from vraXaQVecv, to drip)

stalactites, the Astronomical See also:

TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

Tower and the Beinhaus. Rats, frogs and bats See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form actually the only See also:

animal See also:

LIFE

life in the caves, but a See also:

GREAT

great number of antediluvian animal bones have been found here, as well as human bones and numerous remains of prehistoric human settlements.

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