Travels in the United States, etc.,: during 1849 and 1850./ By the Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley.

TRAVELS IN AMERICA.
never having been buried alive, or trodden underfoot by half a
quarter of the inhabitants of the State.
One of his female slaves told me, ladies return sometimes from
their cave expedition half dead, and keep their beds for " a many
days," and occasionally have received severe injuries from stumbling on the ruggLed sharp-pointed rocks. This negress was one
of the most good-natured beings I ever met with: she voluntarily
undertook the task of rubbing off from some of our clothes the dust
of the cave: she scrubbed away with such zeal that soon her arms
became a sort of faint cream color, and her thick crop of wool was
so densely powdered as to assume the same tint, together with her
smiling gentle face. She appeared to compassionate us profoundly;
and, perhaps, imagining, in consequence of her master's prejudices
against that mighty cave, that no one of their own free will would
visit such a dreadful place (to come back in such a fearful plight),
she appeared to entertain an opinion that -travelers in general
had to go through this ordeal; and, peradventure, were thus naturalized and made real children of the soil, after carrying so much
of it away about their persons and habiliments. The claim would
be well grounded, at any rate.
Mr. B, the English gentleman who visited the cave at
the same time we did, has just arrived here: he called a little
while ago and told me that a poor young lady, who was very ill
at the Cave Hotel while we were there, died the day before he
came-away. She had caught cold in coming out of the cave only
a few days before, after being much overheated by walking there,
and neglecting to put on a shawl: inflammation came on, and she
had thus fallen a victim to this slight imprudence.
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