Louisville, Kentucky
JOHN P. MORTON & COMPANY
Incorporated
1909
[Illustration: GUIDE MAP OF THE
MAMMOTH CAVE
KENTUCKY
Drawn by Horace C. Hovey
1909
(From former surveys, with recent additions)
_Copyright 1907 & 1909 by Horace C. Hovey_]
TABLE OF APPROXIMATE DISTANCES
To the Kentucky Cliffs about 380 yds.
″ Standing Rocks ″ 647 ″
″ Giant’s Coffin ″ 875 ″
″ Star Chamber ″ 1500 ″
″ Ultima Thule ″ 4200 ″
″ Limitation Hill ″ 1840 ″
″ Angelica’s Grotto ″ 1957 ″
″ Mammoth Dome ″ 1870 ″
″ Echo River (A) ″ 2320 ″
″ End of Echo River (est.) ″ 3000 ″
″ Jessup Domes ″ 4200 ″
″ Mary’s Vineyard ″ 6000 ″
″ Hovey’s Cathedral (est.) ″ 9200 ″
″ Maelstrom ″ 9600 ″
NOTE:—No instrumental survey of the whole cave has ever been made, and
no exact scale can be given. The above are some of the distances as
paced along the avenues. Domes, halls and pits are relatively
enlarged; and rivers and pools are blackened. The data for this new
Guide map is from the earlier maps of Bogert (1814), Ward (1816), Lee
(1835), Bishop (1845), Blackall (1817-pub. 1899), Forwood (1875),
Hovey (1887) and Call (1897), and from written and oral information by
managers and guides, modified and greatly added to by the author’s own
observations during the past twenty-seven years.
NOTE No. 2:—In the year 1905 Max Kaemper, a German Engineer, was
employed to make a complete survey exclusively for the use of the
owners. Some of his suggestions are embodied in this map of 1909, and
others in the separate charts for the several routes.
KEY TO THE MAP
1. The Iron Gate
2. Hutchins’ Narrows
3. Kentucky Cliffs and the Corkscrew
4. The Church
5. Booth’s Amphitheatre
6. Standing Rocks
7. Grand Arch
8. Giant’s Coffin and Dante’s Gateway
9. Acute Angle and Cottages
10. Proctor’s Arcade
11. Wright’s Rotunda
12. The Cataracts
13. Fairy Grotto
14. St. Catherine City
15. Symmes’ Pit
16. Mummy’s Niche
17. Register Hall
18. The Bridal Altar
19. The Arm Chair
20. Lover’s Leap
21. Elbow Crevice
22. Napoleon’s Dome
23. Wilson’s Way
24. Lake Purity
25. Annette Dome
26. Lee’s Cisterns
27. Wooden Bowl Room
28. The Lost Way Found
29. Way to Pits and Domes
30. Side-Saddle Pit
31. Bottomless Pit
32. Covered Pit
33. Scylla
34. Charybdis
35. Putnam’s Cabinet
36. Darnall’s Way
37. Ariadne’s Grotto
38. Short Cut from Bottomless Pit to Gorin’s Dome
39. Reveller’s Hall
40. Grand Crossing
41. Pineapple Bush
42. Angelica’s Grotto
43. Scotchman’s Trap
44. Fat Man’s Misery
45. Bandit Hall
46. Brigg’s Avenue
47. Charlet’s Dome
48. Wyatt’s Domes
49. Balanced Rock
50. The Dead Sea
51. Charon’s Cascade
D. Janin’s Landing
52. Cascade Hall
53. Serpent Hall
54. Valley-Way Side-Cut
55. The Great Western
56. Vale of Flowers
57. The Jessup Domes
58. Ole Bull’s Concert Hall
59. Fly Chamber
60. Sheep Shelter
61. Corinne’s Dome
62. Black Hole of Calcutta
63. Parrish’s Path
64. Crypt of Jewels
65. Washington Hall
66. Snow Ball Room
67. Floral Cross
68. Orpha’s Garden
69. Wisdom’s Path
70. Paradise
71. Zoe’s Grotto
72. Flora’s Garden
73. Vale of Diamonds
74. Helen’s Hall
75. Charlotte’s Grotto
76. Serena’s Arbor
77. Dismal Hollow
78. Clark’s Avenue
79. Harlan’s Avenue
80. Nicholson’s Avenue
81. Boone Avenue
82. Pinson’s Pass
83. Hawkins’ Way
84. Violet City
[Illustration: Fairy Grotto]