26 MOUNTAINS. 



shire, Westmoreland and Lancashire; and south-west of the 

 summit is the broad heavy mass of Graygarth or Gragreth, 

 2060 N. 



Yordas Cave, in the parish of Thornton in Lonsdale, is at the 

 foot of the upper slopes of Graygarth or Gragreth*. Its 

 narrow opening in the limestone rock is closed by a door, a 

 precaution not to be censured, by those who know what wanton 

 destruction has been caused to many miracles of nature by her 

 irreverent worshipers. The Cavern expands within to a large 

 and lofty chamber (60 yards long and above 20 high), in which 

 water dropping from the roof and sides has formed the nume- 

 rous and fantastic stalactites and stalagmites, which visitors so 

 often beat to pieces for pleasure ! 



Farther in, a circular chamber appears, its roof supported by 

 spirally aggregated pillars of stalactite, the sides adorned with 

 smaller deposits of like nature, and in wet seasons a cascade adds 

 its effect to this beautiful scene. This water is, no doubt, 

 derived from the stream which, a little farther up the glen, is 

 swallowed up by the limestone rock. 



Easegill Kirk, a remarkable scene of wasted rocks and caverns 

 laid open to the day, lying west of Gragreth, may be more con- 

 veniently described in connection with the water (Leek Beck) 

 which runs by it. 



Yordas, the mythical tenant of this Cave in early days, had, 

 like Poole the Eobber of Buxton, his chamber, oven, &c. in the 

 solid limestone, or rather marble, for the encrinal rock is worthy 

 of the name. 



INGLEBOROUGH, standing on the same basis as Whernside, 

 and almost rivalling it in height, is a far more conspicuous 

 mountain, especially to all the south and west. Its conical 

 mass is crowned by a nearly flat cap of millstone grit, and is 

 founded on a vast tabular surface of time-worn limestone rocks, 

 these being in their turn supported by huge cliffs of massive 

 and slaty Silurian strata. Magnificent caverns penetrate into 

 * Gragreth evidently contains the Celtic Grug, rock. 



