Cataract Cave, Scoharle, N.Y.

The Cataract Cave was first opened about two years since, by a young man of the name of Howe. The opening when first noticed was but little larger than a man's arm; but after arduous labor for some hours, he succeeded in making his way into a passage where he could stand erect; and continuing on, numerous chambers were discovered of great extent and beauty. The main avenue has since been examined to the distance of seven miles. One of the innermost rooms, (six miles from the entrance,) which has been named the Rotunda, is thirty feet in diameter, and is said to be 500 feet in height.

Beyond this there was another rotunda, 12 feet in diameter, and several hundred feet in height. The chambers are splendidly arrayed in stalactites and stalaginites, many of which are of gigantic dimensions. Thousands of bat's bones covered the bottom in some places, and many were embedded in stalagmite. About a mile from the entrance, and half a mile from the main avenue, there is a fall of water of great magnitude, whose roaring in these subterraneous recesses has been compared to Niagara; the cave is named from this fall, Cataract Cave. The rocks in which is occurs is limestone.—Silliman's Journal.