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                           HOVEY’S HAND-BOOK
                                   OF
                            The Mammoth Cave
                              OF KENTUCKY


                        A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE
                           REGULATION ROUTES
                      With Maps and Illustrations

                                   BY
                       HORACE CARTER HOVEY, D.D.
                              F. G. S. A.

       Copyright, 1909, by John P. Morton & Company, Incorporated

                          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.