AGGTELEK  , a See also:

• VILLAGE

village of See also:

• HUNGARY
• HUNGARY (Hungarian Magyarorszdg)

Hungary, in the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county of Gomor, situated to the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south of Rozsnyo, on the road from See also:

• BUDAPEST

Budapest to See also:

• DOBSINA (Ger. Dobschau)

Dobsina . Pop . (190o) 557 . In the neighbourhood is the celebrated Aggtelek or Baradla cavern, one of the largest and most remarkable stalactite grottos in See also:

• EUROPE

Europe . It has a length, together with its ramifications, of over 5 See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles, and is formed of two caverns—one known for several centuries, and another discovered by the naturalist Adolf Schmidl in 1856 . Two entrances give See also:

• ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

access to the grotto, an old one extremely narrow, and a new one, made in 189o, through which the exploration of the cavern can be made in about 8 See also:

• HOURS, CANONICAL

hours, See also:

• HALF

half the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time it took before . The cavern is composed of a 1'abyrinth of passages and large and small halls, and is traversed by a stream . In these caverns there are numerous stalactite structures, which, from their curious and fantastic shapes, have received such names as the See also:

• IMAGE (Lat. imago, perhaps from the same root as imitari, copy, imitate)

Image of the Virgin, the See also:

• MOSAIC (corresponding to Lat. opus musivum, from Gr. µovoeiov, an artificial grotto often decorated with mosaics; the word is only found in the sense of mosaic in late Greek, which generally uses k oXI yrlµa)

Mosaic See also:

• ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

Altar, &c . The See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal parts are the Paradies with the finest See also:

• STALACTITES (Gr. (rraXaicros, from vraXaQVecv, to drip)

stalactites, the Astronomical See also:

• TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

Tower and the Beinhaus . Rats, frogs and bats See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form actually the only See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal See also:

• LIFE

life in the caves, but a See also:

• GREAT

great number of antediluvian animal bones have been found here, as well as human bones and numerous remains of prehistoric human settlements .