![]() ![]() ![]() "The Pleasant Face." Fac-simile of the original copper plate frontispiece to the finely illustrated botanical work of Joannes Burmannus, M. "The Stern Face." Fac-simile, reduced from copper plate title page of the botanical work (1708), 917 pages, of Simonis Paulli, D., a Danish physician. Manuscript dedication of Author's Edition. "I stood alone in my room holding the mysterious manuscript." ![]() "Suspended in vacancy, he seemed to float." "With fear and trembling I crept on my knees to his side."ĭiagram descriptive of journey from the Kentucky cavern to the "End of Earth," showing section of earth's crust. "Flowers and structures beautiful, insects gorgeous." "We passed through caverns filled with creeping reptiles." "The wall descended perpendicularly to seemingly infinite depths." "We finally reached a precipitous bluff." "Facing the open window he turned the pupils of his eyes upward." Daniel Vaughn'Gravitation is the beginning, and gravitation is the end all earthly bodies kneel to gravitation."' "Far as the eye could reach the glassy barrier spread as a crystal mirror." "This struggling ray of sunlight is to be your last for years." "Confronted by a singular looking being." "Map of Kentucky near entrance to cavern." "My arms were firmly grasped by two persons." "Fac-simile of the mysterious manuscript of I≺mTheManWho≽idIt. ![]() "The same glittering, horrible, mysterious knife." "And to my amazement, saw a white-haired man." Preface Introduction"Here lies the bones," etc. ![]()
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