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not roll it down on purpose. At length, 

 quite spent with toil, we reached the ob- 

 ject of our pursuit, which is a cavity in the 

 middle of the mountain. I expected to 

 have seen somethmg to repay my curiosity, 

 but found a mere cavern, formed like a 

 circle or arch, fourteen Parisian feet high, 

 eighteen broad, and twenty-two long. The 

 stones that compose it are of a very hard 

 kind of quartz or spar, yet the sides of the 

 cavern are in many places as even as if 

 they had been cut artificially. Several 

 different strata are distinguishable, parti- 

 cularly in the roof, which is concave like 

 an arch. In that part a hole appears, in- 

 tended, as I was told, for a chimney. 

 Whether it is pervious to any extent, I know 

 not. Some convulsion of the mountain 

 seems to have shivered the rock in longi- 

 tudinal fissures. All the shivers of stone, 

 many of which lie on the floor, are qua- 

 dran<rular, and of a considerable size. I am 

 fully persuaded of this grotto having been 

 formed by the hand of Nature, and that 



