OP THE CAVE AT KIUKDALE. 7 



tlie village of Kirivham; the stoppage of which would 

 lay the whole vale under water, and produce the 

 most direful effects. 



The Caye is on the left hand of the road leading 

 from Helmsley to Kirkby-Moorsitle, on the slope 

 of the hill which sabsides into Hodge-beck,* the 

 original mouth of it is 132 feet from the beck, and 

 *}3 feet above it ; its present entrance is 38 feet from 

 its former, having been laid open that distance to 

 procure stone to mend the roads. The present 

 floor is 2 feet above the part removed, or what the 

 workmen call a lift or bed above it; the part of 

 the rooftaken away was of the same height as that 

 which remains, making the height of the first open- 



* The entrance into the Cave, and about half the 

 extent of it, are in the Welburu estate, the joint proper- 

 ty of the Rev. Arthur Cayley, M. A. Rector of Norman- 

 by, the Rev. Francis Wrangham M. A. F. R. S. Arch- 

 deacon of Cleveland, and Smith, M. I), in right of their 

 respective Ladies ; the other part of it enters into a field 

 1'ie property of Robert Fetch, Esq. Solicitor of Kirkby- 

 Moorside. Those gentlemen liberally allowed the clear- 

 ing out theCave, and collecting the bones and teeth, being 

 willing that they should fall into the hands of such per- 

 sons, who would deposit them in public institutions, 

 or otherwise take care of them, to preserve (he interesting 

 memorials of this wonderful cavern, to which liberality 

 nnd ready acquiescence with the wishes of men of science, 

 the literary world is much indebted. 



It deserves to be recorded, that VV. Salmond, Esq. of 

 York, employed workmen at a considerableexpence, and 

 superintended the work till the greater part of the rami- 

 fications of the cave were cleared out ; he likewise took 

 and drew a plan of it, which is engraved in Mr. Buck- 

 land's Work, and which also appears in the present 

 publication. 



