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Ever since the time this description was _ written the exact 

 entrance to these caverns has been unknown, and their re- 

 discovery is due mainly to the untiring energy and preseverance 

 of Mr. NichoUs. It seems that Mr. Moreing, a civil engineer, 

 having during the autumn of last year visited these parts, and 

 being familiar with the above description, determined to find out 

 the entrance, but after some fruitless researches, and not liking 

 to give it up altogether, it was agreed that a reward of £2 should 

 be oflFered, and a sum at the rate of 3s. per day for the work done 

 should be given to the discoverer. Stimulated by this two elderly 

 men, one of whom luckily had a grandfather living (or at least 

 had a lively remembrance of a grandfather that once had lived) 

 who remembered something about these caverns and directed 

 them to the spot, set to work to unearth the buried secrets. 

 Three weeks had been fully taken up in fruitless endeavours, 

 and they were about to abandon their search when just at the 

 last moment, encouraged by the presence of Mr. NichoUs, 

 they luckily hit upon the entrance, and once again light was 

 admitted to "Lamb Lear." Somewhat excited by a recital 

 of these facts the party found themselves on the top of Gibbet 

 Brow, a hill to the north of Lamb bottom, having passed 

 in their walk over the Dolomitic Conglomerate on to the Moun- 

 tain Limestone. The slopes and brow of this hill were riddled 

 with depressions which an enthusiastic antiquary might con- 

 sider to be hut circles, but even the venerable " tump " hunter 

 and earthwork inspector of the club shook his head when appealed 

 to here, and considered the traces of mining too evident to admit 

 of a doubt in favour of old folks' habitations. The friendly 

 shelter of some miners' huts on the most exposed part of the brow 

 was taken advantage of during the thunderstorm which now came 

 up viciously black from Wells, and those who determined to go 

 underground prepared themselves by a suitable change of clothes. 

 Some freshly broken ground just to the east of the road leading to 

 Wells, on which a windlass had been erected, indicated the 



