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trilobite. It is round; and its legs are spread out. The water is fifty or sixty feet deep. What a big place underground this is! It is a long way from the water up to the surface. I must have traveled more than a hundred miles."

 

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#23 --- This map reference (#23) refers to the last two paragraphs of Frank Haigler's letter regarding the Idaho tunnel (See reference #2)

 

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#24 --- I will now quote parts of an article in an NSS (National Speleological Society) newsletter, written by Janice Goad, entitled: ‘CAVE LEGENDS OF THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS':

    "...The Indian Burial Cave is also a popular story. For instance, last year I was told of a cave in Russel County with a 250 foot entrance drop, and with a floor that was covered with pink Indian skulls and artifacts that had been there so long that they were coated with calcite..."

    "...Almost every cave is reputed to possess a ‘Bottomless pit’ in which rocks never hit bottom."

 

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#25 --- (I continue quoting from the above reference - i.e. No.24): "One of the more interesting "Tom Sawyer" type stories involves Crabtree Cave, in Smyth County. During the Depression, a man vanished into the cave and was never found again. This disappearance was doubly distressing, as he had eight hundred dollars in his pocket (his relatives even had the F.B.I. looking for him.)