YICINITY OF THE CAVE AT KIRKDALE. 5 



same manner ; the purposes of Providence are 

 unfolded by different incidents; and the acquisition 

 of Knowledge is often proposed to the understand- 

 ing, in a way calculated to produce the most 

 powerful effects. Here indeed beauty, interest, and 

 mystery, are combined ; here the geologist finds 

 ample bcdpe for the exercise of his talents ; the 

 antiquary gratifies his taste ; the botanist has range 

 for the pursuit of his favourite study ; and the retir- 

 ing student can hide himself from public observa- 

 tion, and feast on the narrative of some favourite 

 author, or collect fresh ideas from the volume of 

 nature, which lies open to his view. I shall not 

 dwell any longer, on general observations in the 

 immediate Vicinity of the Cave, but proceed to its 

 Geological Situation, and to a Description of the 

 Cave itself. 



GEOLOGICAL SITUATION OF THE CAVE 

 AT KIRKDALE. 



KIRKDAI.E lies on the side of a Road leading from 

 Kirkby-Moorsideto Helmsley, about 25 miles N. N. 

 E. of the ancient and venerable city of York, a fen 

 miles from the foot of the eastern termination of the 

 I! arable ton II ills, facing the direction of Scarbo- 

 rough, and subsiding into the beautiful and fertile 

 vale of Pickering, and not far from the southern 

 extremity of the bleak and elevated district called 



