| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 608 pages
...state are great curiosities. One, styled Mammoth cave, 130 miles from Lexington, on the road leading to Nashville, is said to be 8 or 10 miles in length, with a great number of avenues and windings. Earth strongly impregnated with nitre is found in most of these... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - Geography - 1844 - 576 pages
...great distance, and is, with good reason, «uppoecd to extend for 8 or 10 m. The earth at the bottom is strongly impregnated with nitre, which has been,...Wheat, tobacco, and hemp, are the staple productions of the state , but Indian corn, rye, oata, barley, buckwheat, flax aod potatoes, and cotton for domestic... | |
| John MacGregor - America - 1847 - 1362 pages
...the state, between Green and Cumberland rivera, are several remarkable caves. One called the Mammoth cave, 130 miles from Lexington on the road to Nashville, is said to be eight or ten miles in length, with many diverging apartments. The earth at the bottom of it is strongly... | |
| John Macgregor - America - 1847 - 1440 pages
...between Green and Cumberland rivers, are several remarkable caves. One called the Mammoth cave, 180 miles from Lexington on the road to Nashville, is said to be eight or ten miles in length, with many diverging apartments. The earth at the bottom of it is strongly... | |
| William O. Blake - Geography - 1855 - 1010 pages
...grea distance, and is, with good reason, supposed to extend for 8 or 10 miles. The earth at the bottom is strongly impregnated with nitre, which has been, to a considerable extent, manufactured from it. Ohio river winds along the north border of this state for 637 miles. Cumberland river rises in the... | |
| Thomas Wright - 1862 - 1134 pages
...hogs and cattle. In this part of the state there are several remarkable caves. One called the Mammoth cave, 130 miles from Lexington, on the road to Nashville,...been to a considerable extent manufactured from it. The Ohio, by its various windings, borders this state on the N. for G37 miles, and receives most of... | |
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