Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1893 — A Remarkable Cave. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Cave.

A gentleman of Waycross, Ga., who has just returned from a trip to Decatur county, says that while he was there he was the guest of J. A. Connell, who owns vast acres of land. Mr. CoDnell went with him to a place on the estate where there is a remarkable waterfall and cave. The gentleman says: "Arriving near the falls one cannot but be impressed with the beautiful scenery, the trees and flowers trailing up the hillside. A stream of water, which is fed by natural springs and augmented by the rain, ripples down the hillside for miles, and here the water jumps oil and falls perpendicularly eighty-three feet over a ledge of rock into a natural basin which nature has formed at the foot of several high hills. After the water reaches the basin it runs about ten feet and disappears abruptly in the earth underneath a ledge of rock. In the side of this rock there is an opening large enough for a man to crawl in. Taking a lantern we entered through the opening and found ourselves in a large cave. AVe went about seventyfive feet and found an underground river flowing gulfward. In the cave there is a faint light at midday. At a certain hour of the day, Mr. Connell says, that if a newspaper is held at the opening of the cave it will be carried in by a current of air, and after a lapse of six hours the current drives the paper back again. Standing just below the cataract at midday, with a spray enveloping us, a rainbow as beautiful as any that has ever spanned the heavens was seen. This rainbow is a daily exhibition.”—[Atlanta Constitution.