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Those married ladies alone who are qualihed by
an unlimited sway at home to wear the-l mean TO
usurp the masculine insignia of dominion, are the
only ones for whom it would be proper or advi-
sable to proceed further for the present, at
!eas, until some of the windy passages shall be
cleared OUT whereby to avoid the passage of what
j. called the .'gallery," q name which we
thought altogether too digai6ed for low, narrow,
,nterminable hole OF several hundred rods in
length.


Here in this passage, (this gallery!) we man
aged to walk a little way erect Soon, however,
the solid roof gave very gentle intimation to
stoop and go safe" and, despite of all our con-
fractions from FIVE feet to four, and from four TO
three, we we're compelled to come down to level
with the brute on hands and knees, and at last to
wrggle ourselves along as best we might after the
manner of the ternPter of commsn mother
Eve But here was a new obstacle: the draft Of
air through this wet narrow passage strong
that it was with the utmost difficulty, by pulling
up the wcks of our lamps, that were able to
keep cur lights from being extinguished. But no
one anticipated any danger, and even when the
CRY q my light is out y burst from some one of the
party, it was received by the rest with roar of


laughter that would have done credit TO a baccha-
nalian party OF reckless bandits, instead of half
score of poor rnousing devils cropping about three
quarters Of q mile under ground. Once IN the gal


ery, and there is no such thing as turning back;
" neck or nothing must be the motto. Finally
we succeeded in reaching the end, and stopped to
rest in the dressing rooss-a room similar to the
one 6rst described, and, by the way, not inaptly
named Each one mad lost either an arm or a tail,
of his coat, mean-and all needed read
justmert. We stopped to re6t, in confident secu-
rity from intrusion on our privacy Beyend this,
the path is comparatively easy, and for quarter
of a mile, to the edge of the lake, we were able
70 walk erect, over high fragments that had fallen
from the roof; now stopping to admire some beau
tiful formation, and anon gazing upwards in vain
enaeavor to discover the tops of the ma,sy 6elreys
and clefrs that opened above as. The lake is not
broad and beyond it the passage is still larger than
before, presenting the appearance of a long and
spacious hall, occasionally widening into large
rooms. Besides this, shere are innuHerable side
passages Of great extent, few of which have