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westerly part of the town. The mouth of the 

 cave is not more than two and an half feet in 

 diameter. In its descent, the passage makes 

 an angle with the horizon of 35 or 40 degrees ; 

 but continues of nearly the same diameter, 

 through the Avliole length, which is thirty one 

 feet and an half.--- At that distance from the 

 mouth, it opens into a spacious room ; twenty 

 feet long, twelve feet and an half wide, and eigh- 

 teen or twenty feet high. Every part of the 

 floor, sides, and roof of this room, appear to be 

 a solid rock, but very rough and uneven. The 

 water is continually percolating through the top, 

 and has formed stalactites of various forms ; 

 many of which are conical, and some have the 

 appearance of massive columns. ---At the north 

 part of this room, there is another aperture of 

 about forty inches diameter, very rough and 

 uneven. This aperture is the beginning of an- 

 other passage, through the internal parts of a 

 solid rock : The direction of this passage is 

 oblique, and full of stops or notches, and its 

 length about twenty four feet. Descending 

 through this aperture, another spacious room 

 opens to view. The dimensions of this apart- 

 ment are twenty feet in width, thirty in length, 

 and twenty in height. In the spring of the year, 

 the whole of this lower room is full of water ; 

 and at all other seasons, water is to be found in 



the lower parts of it No animal has been 



found to reside in this cave, and it evidently 

 appears to be the production of nature, untouch- 

 ed by the hand of man.---Another of these cav- 

 erns is at Danby, and a third at Dorset. These 

 are said to be more curious than this at Claren- 



