* THE INTERESTING SCENERY IN THE 



cultivation was det to work, and pages of history 

 \vere commenced* It is impossible for us to have 

 any guide but imagination to the state of this dis- 

 trict, nearly four thousand years ago ; what it was, 

 or what Animals then inhabited this clime; is known 

 with certainty, only to the Supreme Being. We 

 now behold it as it is, we trace it by the light of his- 

 tory, through the lapse of many centuries, beyond 

 which probability is our only guide. Who would 

 have had an idea of the phenomenon, which has 

 rushed upon the public mind, as it relates to the 

 animal remains in the Cave at Kirkdale ? 



Little did the boy think, who stepped amongst 

 the bushes, with which the mouth of the Cave 

 was overgrown ; or the woodman, when felling 

 the oak ; that he was walking on a spot, which in 

 some future time, would interest the literary 

 world, and draw many from the smoke of populous 

 and poli&hed cities and towns, and from the re- 

 tired cloisters of colleges, to explore a Cavern, then 

 unknown, and to visit a situation, which before had 

 been comparatively unobserved! But unexpected 

 circumstances every day unfold some mysteries, and 

 give fresh stimulus to the energies of the human 

 mind. 



The situation of Kirkdale was pleasing to the 

 lovers of retirement, 'before this species of celebrity 

 was attached to it ; but now it is interesting to 

 many, who, had it not been for this circumstance 

 would not have been familiar, even, with its name. 



Thus places and persons are brought to public 

 nolice by accident ; science is improved in the 



