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Without
further
ado
Gagool
plunged
into
the
passage
,
which
was
wide
enough
to
admit
of
two
walking
abreast
,
and
quite
dark
.
We
followed
the
sound
of
her
voice
as
she
piped
to
us
to
come
on
,
in
some
fear
and
trembling
,
which
was
not
allayed
by
the
flutter
of
a
sudden
rush
of
wings
.
"
Hullo
!
what
's
that
?
"
halloed
Good
;
"
somebody
hit
me
in
the
face
.
"
"
Bats
,
"
said
I
;
"
on
you
go
.
"
When
,
so
far
as
we
could
judge
,
we
had
gone
some
fifty
paces
,
we
perceived
that
the
passage
was
growing
faintly
light
.
Another
minute
,
and
we
were
in
perhaps
the
most
wonderful
place
that
the
eyes
of
living
man
have
beheld
.
Let
the
reader
picture
to
himself
the
hall
of
the
vastest
cathedral
he
ever
stood
in
,
windowless
indeed
,
but
dimly
lighted
from
above
,
presumably
by
shafts
connected
with
the
outer
air
and
driven
in
the
roof
,
which
arched
away
a
hundred
feet
above
our
heads
,
and
he
will
get
some
idea
of
the
size
of
the
enormous
cave
in
which
we
found
ourselves
,
with
the
difference
that
this
cathedral
designed
by
nature
was
loftier
and
wider
than
any
built
by
man
.
But
its
stupendous
size
was
the
least
of
the
wonders
of
the
place
,
for
running
in
rows
adown
its
length
were
gigantic
pillars
of
what
looked
like
ice
,
but
were
,
in
reality
,
huge
stalactites
.
It
is
impossible
for
me
to
convey
any
idea
of
the
overpowering
beauty
and
grandeur
of
these
pillars
of
white
spar
,
some
of
which
were
not
less
than
twenty
feet
in
diameter
at
the
base
,
and
sprang
up
in
lofty
and
yet
delicate
beauty
sheer
to
the
distant
roof
.
Others
again
were
in
process
of
formation
.
On
the
rock
floor
there
was
in
these
cases
what
looked
,
Sir
Henry
said
,
exactly
like
a
broken
column
in
an
old
Grecian
temple
,
whilst
high
above
,
depending
from
the
roof
,
the
point
of
a
huge
icicle
could
be
dimly
seen
.
Even
as
we
gazed
we
could
hear
the
process
going
on
,
for
presently
with
a
tiny
splash
a
drop
of
water
would
fall
from
the
far-off
icicle
on
to
the
column
below
.
On
some
columns
the
drops
only
fell
once
in
two
or
three
minutes
,
and
in
these
cases
it
would
be
an
interesting
calculation
to
discover
how
long
,
at
that
rate
of
dripping
,
it
would
take
to
form
a
pillar
,
say
eighty
feet
by
ten
in
diameter
.
That
the
process
,
in
at
least
one
instance
,
was
incalculably
slow
,
the
following
example
will
suffice
to
show
.
Cut
on
one
of
these
pillars
we
discovered
the
crude
likeness
of
a
mummy
,
by
the
head
of
which
sat
what
appeared
to
be
the
figure
of
an
Egyptian
god
,
doubtless
the
handiwork
of
some
old-world
labourer
in
the
mine
.
This
work
of
art
was
executed
at
the
natural
height
at
which
an
idle
fellow
,
be
he
Phoenician
workman
or
British
cad
,
is
in
the
habit
of
trying
to
immortalise
himself
at
the
expense
of
nature
's
masterpieces
,
namely
,
about
five
feet
from
the
ground
.
Yet
at
the
time
that
we
saw
it
,
which
must
have
been
nearly
three
thousand
years
after
the
date
of
the
execution
of
the
carving
,
the
column
was
only
eight
feet
high
,
and
was
still
in
process
of
formation
,
which
gives
a
rate
of
growth
of
a
foot
to
a
thousand
years
,
or
an
inch
and
a
fraction
to
a
century
.
This
we
knew
because
,
as
we
were
standing
by
it
,
we
heard
a
drop
of
water
fall
.
Sometimes
the
stalagmites
took
strange
forms
,
presumably
where
the
dropping
of
the
water
had
not
always
been
on
the
same
spot
.
Thus
,
one
huge
mass
,
which
must
have
weighed
a
hundred
tons
or
so
,
was
in
the
shape
of
a
pulpit
,
beautifully
fretted
over
outside
with
a
design
that
looked
like
lace
.
Others
resembled
strange
beasts
,
and
on
the
sides
of
the
cave
were
fanlike
ivory
tracings
,
such
as
the
frost
leaves
upon
a
pane
.
Out
of
the
vast
main
aisle
there
opened
here
and
there
smaller
caves
,
exactly
,
Sir
Henry
said
,
as
chapels
open
out
of
great
cathedrals
.
Some
were
large
,
but
one
or
two
--
and
this
is
a
wonderful
instance
of
how
nature
carries
out
her
handiwork
by
the
same
unvarying
laws
,
utterly
irrespective
of
size
--
were
tiny
.
One
little
nook
,
for
instance
,
was
no
larger
than
an
unusually
big
doll
's
house
,
and
yet
it
might
have
been
a
model
for
the
whole
place
,
for
the
water
dropped
,
tiny
icicles
hung
,
and
spar
columns
were
forming
in
just
the
same
way
.
