The most beautiful stalactitic caves in Great Britain are those of Cheddar in Somerset, Caldy Island and Poole's Cavern at Buxton.
I shall not do more than mention Proctor and Diamond Caves, which we explored on the following day, but they excel in stalactiticformation and well repay a visit.
Haggard has a clever and somewhat caustic conceit respecting stalactitic growth.
Numerous splendid columns like white marble, and sheets of stalactitic growth, excite wonder and admiration.
There are a few fine stalagmites, but the chief beauty is in the stalactitic growth.
In a passage on the right hand side is a stalactite which the cave-keeper has carefully watched for 18 years, in order to form some idea as to the rate of stalactitic growth.
For about two-thirds of the way down it is compounded of several stalactitic lines; the remainder is a simple shaft with irregular surface.
The stalactitic formation hangs in ponderous grotesquely-shaped concretions, some of which extend from the roof nearly to the floor, and many of the stalactites which decorate the stalactitic formation are perfect in shape and purity.
Near the eastern entrance are two stalactitic figures fashioned like vultures about to engage in combat.
Near to it is another pyramidal-shaped mass of even greater bulk, which tapers as it rises towards the stalactitic formation, and harmonises with it in grandeur.
Stalactitic formation descends from an angle in the roof, and rests on four or five finely coloured terraces which glitter all over as though they were covered with spangles.
It is remarkable chiefly for the magnitude and beauty of its stalactitic formation, the best portions of which are fenced off with iron rods and wire netting.
The older growth is essentially of a stalactitic type, and the stalactites are remarkably thick, though in one or two cases a huge stalagmite is to be seen.
In the midst is a peculiarly-shaped stalactitic pillar resting on a dome, and which may be regarded as the Pixies' trysting-place.
Lime is wholly unknown as a constituent of the soil, and only occasionally seen as a stalactitic deposit from a few springs.
Below this I passed an extensive stalactitic deposit of lime, and a second occurred lower down, on the opposite side of the valley.
The water dripping into the cavern from the overlying limestone is highly charged with carbonate of lime, which is largely deposited on the ceiling and floor of the cavern, forming stalactitic and stalagmitic deposits.
Excepting the great cave of Kentucky, I believe there is no stalactitic cavern known so vast and beautiful as this.
But when we got into our saddles in the early morning, we forgot all these little miseries, and started merrily on our expedition to the great stalactitic cave of Cacahuamilpán.
Hence some stalactites have their tips under water long enough to allow tassels of crystals to grow on them, which, in a drier season, are again coated over with stalactitic matter; and thus singular distortions are occasioned.
The stalactitic display exceeds that of any other cavern known.
AG'TELEK, a village in Hungary, near the road from Pesth to Kassa, with about 600 inhabitants, celebrated for one of the largest and most remarkable stalactitic caverns in Europe.
It is usually stalagmitic or stalactiticin origin and is often of a yellowish colour.
In proportion as the floor of the furnace gets impregnated with litharge, the workman digs in it a gutter for the escape of the liquid litharge: it falls in front of the small aperture, and concretes in stalactitic forms.
It occurs in small kidney-shaped andstalactitic shapes, and large tuberose concretions.
Calcsinter, or stalactitic carbonate of lime, called also concretionary limestone, because formed of zones more or less undulated, and nearly parallel.
In the discharge troughs where printed calicoes are passed through strong solutions of chloride of lime, stalactitic crusts of carbonate of lime come to be formed in this way.
Very fine examples of stalactitic chalcedony, in whimsical forms, have been yielded by some of the Cornish copper-mines.
The interior walls of the crater showed neither the usual stalactitic scoriae nor sublimations, nor fumaroles, but alternate beds of scoriae and of compact lava.
By lying along the edge, I could see a cavity of cylindrical form about ten metres in depth, tapestried with stalactitic scoriae covered with sublimations of various colours.
It possessed a stalactitic aspect by the infiltration of calcareous matter and in crevices below I found a reddish stalagmite containing grains of sand.
The face of this cleft appeared of different colors, some more red or brown than others; the parts esteemed most rich in gold had the appearance of irregular cavities, filled by a stalactitic substance in decomposition.
He had also some specimens of stalactitic matter, on which nitre was forming, others of specular iron ore, and three or four fine pieces of chrome, which I at first took for realgar.
Just then Tom's oakum blazed up behind me, to light up the vault with its sparkling stalactitic roof, glistening sides, and strangely-agitated water.
At twenty-five to thirty feet above the sea I found the same recent beds of mussels as in the stalactitic cavern of Sogoton.
From this point both the landscape and the rocky cauldron are visible, and the latter is seen to be the remainder of a stalactitic cavern, the roof of which has fallen in.
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