C — Cat and Fiddle to Catacomb (Part 3 of 3)

Comb or Coom, full of mausoleums and the sepulchres of the Persian saints. (Greek, kata-kumbe, a hollow place underground.) (See Koom .)

“The most awful idea connected with the catacombs is their interminable extent, and the possibility of going astray in the labyrinth of darkness.” - Hawthorne: Marble Faun, iii.