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See also:COLOSSAL CAVERN , a See also:cave in See also:Kentucky, U.S.A., the See also:main entrance of which is at the See also:foot of a steep See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill beyond See also:Eden Valley, and 11 m. from See also:Mammoth Cave. It is connected with what has See also:long been known as the See also:Bed See also:Quilt Cave. Several entrances found by See also:local explorers were rough and difficult. They were closed when the See also:property was bought in 1896 by the See also:Louisville & See also:Nashville railway and a new approach made as indicated on the accompanying See also:map. From the See also:surface to the See also:floor is 240 ft.; under See also:Chester See also:Sandstone and in the St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:Limestone. Fossil See also:corals See also:fix the See also:geological See also:age of the See also:rock. The temperature is uniformly 54° Fahr., and the See also:atmosphere is optically and chemically pure. Lovely incrustations alternate with queer and See also:grotesque figures. There are exquisite See also:gypsum rosettes and intricately involved helictites.
See also:Copyright t9v3 & 1go7 by H.C. Hooey - Old Entrance EmeryWalker sc.
Tremendous forces have been at See also:work, suggesting earthquakes and eruptions; but really all is due to the chemical and See also:mechanical See also:action of See also:water. The so-called " Ruins of See also:Carthage " fill a See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall 400 ft. long by Too ft. wide and 30 ft. high, whose See also:flat roof is a vast homogeneous limestone See also:block. Isolated detached blocks measure from 50 to Too ft. in length. See also:Edgar See also:Vaughan and W. L. See also:Marshall, See also:civil See also:engineers, surveyed every See also:part of the cave. Vaughan's See also:Dome is 40 ft. wide, 300 ft. long, and 79 ft. high. Numerous other domes exist, and many deep pits. The grandest See also:place of all is the Colossal Dome, which used to beentered only from the See also:apex by windlass and a rope reaching 135 ft. to the floor. This is now used only for See also:illumination by raising and lowering a See also:fire-See also:basket. The See also:present entrance is by a gateway buttressed by See also:alabaster shafts, one of which, 75 ft. high, is named See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Clay's See also:Monument. The dome walls arise in a See also:series of richly tinted rings, each 8 or To ft. thick, and each fringed by See also:stalactites. The symmetry is remarkable, and the reverberations are strangely musical. The Pearly See also:Pool, in a chamber near a See also:- PIT (O. E. pytt, cognate with Du. put, Ger. Pfutze, &c., all ultimately adaptations of Lat. puteus, well, formed from root pu-, to cleanse, whence gurus, clean, pure)
pit 86 ft. deep, glistens with countless cave pearls. The route beyond is between rows of stately shafts, and ends in a copious chalybeate See also:spring. See also:Blind flies, See also:spiders, beetles and crickets abound; and now and then a blind crawfish darts through the See also:waters; but as compared with many caverns the See also:fauna and See also:flora are not abundant. It is conjectured, not without some See also:reason, that there is a connexion, as yet undiscovered, between the Colossal and the Mammoth caves. It seems certain that Eden Valley, which now lies between them, is a vast " tumble-down " of an immense cavern that formerly See also:united them into one. (H. C.
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