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| | MGS On-Line List of Publications: Educational Series 3 - Caves of Maryland |
 | | Cave studies here have come a long way since their inauspicious beginnings in the mid-18th Century, when Joseph Spangenberg made reference in Moravian Journals to a cave believed to have been the one now known as Busheys Cavern. |
 | | By 1943 the number of caves on the state list had leaped to five, as recorded by Robert Morgan in his “Partial Index to All the Known Caves of the World,” published in The American Caver, the Bulletin of the National Speleological Society. |
 | | That caves, if they are to survive as living museums, laboratories, nature preserves, challenges, or just plain curiosities, must be treated with all the respect due their fragile grandeur and inestimable value. |
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