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The Nathral Fiiftory of the. Book EL. 
glaciated Subftances, are, in general, of the fame Make and Nature in evey 
Part of the World. : 
» The next thing remarkable in thefe fubterraneous Apartments is the 
Wet Cave. This, tiear its firft Separation from the Dry, already deferi- 
bed, is very {pacious and lofty ; but its Bottom very much furrowed, and 
torn up, by the repeated Torrents of Rain, which in wet Seafon$ run 
through it. 
Soon after we entered this, we were agreeably furprifed with the Mur- 
murs of a diftant Stream, which a little farther we found to bea confider- 
able Spring of the moft tranfparent Water, ifluing from a large projected 
Rock; -or rather the impending Side of the Cave. 
Having drunk of this, we might here again juftly apply another Paf- 
fage in Virgil: 
Tntus aque dulces, vivog; fedilia axo, 
Nympharumg; domus. -.-- - - ~ 
A Grot is form’d beneath, with mofly Seats, 
To reft the Wereids, and exclude the Heats. 
Down thro’ the Crannies of the living Walls 
The cryftal Streams defcend in murm’ring Falls, Dryp, 
The Roof of the Cave, near this Place, is deeply and remarkably pit- 
ted with feveral Holes, reprefenting fhallow Cones of Diameters, from 
Nine to Twenty Inches, whofe greateft Depth was not above Twenty- 
four Inches. 
Limagine that thefe Holes owe their Origin to large cavous Icicles, 
which formerly hung down from them, but were broken off by fome 
Convulfions of the Earth. 
The Spring here made a fmall Bafin, or Bathing-place ; and the Air is 
likewife there made pure and clear by the Coldnefs of the Water. 
From hence forwards, the Cave gradually leffened in Height and 
Breadth ; and the Icicles hanging from the Top, and irregular Sides, were 
more in Number, but lefs in Magnitude. 
Here I began to want Air; and at laft the Paflage became fo nar- 
row and low, that I was obliged to ftoop much ; and the Icicles were fo. 
fmall, that the longeft of them did not exceed my little Finger in Length, 
and in Diameter. : mks 
This Place, diftant near a Quarter of a Mile from the Entrance, was 
my We plus ultra, being fo much fatigued, and wanting Air fo much, 
that I durft not, without Prefumption, proceed farther. 
I cannot help fanfying, that if this Cave had been fituated in antient 
Greece, or Italy, imbrowned with Shades of Cyprefs. Groves, and me- 
lancholy Yew, it would, in all Probability, have been the Rendez- 
vous of all the bufy and inquifitive World: Here oracular PAedus had 
fixed 
