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tamed between vertical cliffs, has long been the admiration of 

 tourists, and appears in the drawings of many artists*. The 

 water has no sooner fallen than it is swallowed up among the 

 pebbles which it has heaped over the fissures in the rocks below. 

 After passing underground it reappears at a considerable distance 

 below the Chapel. The mouth of this cave, like that of Hurtle 

 Pot, is adorned with trees, over which Ingleborough makes a 

 grand appearance. Whernside looks well from below the little 

 Chapel in the dale. Douk Hole, nearer to Ingleton, shows a 

 smaller waterfall. 



Gatekirk Cave, situated about a mile above Weathercote in 

 the same valley. The principal feeder of the Greta runs through 

 both. This cave has two entrances, one towards the north, the 

 other towards the south. The cave is probably 300 feet long, 

 traversed by the stream, and richly ornamented by stalactites 

 hanging from the roof (Westall). 



Gauber Hole, on the north side of Ingleborough, and another 

 cavern opened by Mr. Farrer, may be added to the list, which 

 probably will be augmented hereafter. But it is necessary to 

 hasten to a more careful description of that great and beautiful 

 subterranean grotto in Clapdale, which has been appropriately 

 termed the 'Ingleborough Cave' (see PI. VII.). 



From Mr. Fairer' s plan and description, as given in the ' Pro- 

 ceedings of the Geological Society/ June 14, 1848, and from 

 information since obligingly communicated to me, a clear notion 

 of the history of this most instructive spar grotto may be formed. 

 For about eighty yards from the entrance the cave has been 

 known immemorially. At this point Josiah Harrison, a gar- 

 dener in Mr. Farrer's service, broke through a stalagmitical 

 barrier which the water had formed, and obtained access to a 

 series of expanded cavities and contracted passages, stretching 

 first to the N., then to the N.W., afterwards to the N. and N.E., 

 and finally to the E., till after two years spent in the interesting 



Westall's views of the Ingleton Caves may be commended. See also 

 PI. VI. 



