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in its north-east corner is a small gallery communicating with one of the 

 orifices in the crags near the entrance. 



He turning to the Long Gallery (6, 7, 16) of which a tine view may he 

 seen from the south end of the Tortoise block that spans it (see 1'laie VII, 

 cross-sections i. we find the tunnel very large, with pronounced shelf and deep 

 trench, at the enlarged bottom of which it is perforated and crossed by the 

 low-level water-courses that cut across the galleries. The principal of these 

 descended into a cavity called the Lowest Cellar, which communicated with 

 the l"'tt«>ni of the Abyss, and the Straddling Gallery east of it. This great 



Qow-hole had undermined the eastern wall of the gallery, which fell, and 

 its ruins now Lie, coated with Btalagmite, at the bottom ol the Bride's Hall, 

 a portion of 1 1 u ■ ! Ilery whose roof is adorned with innumerable small 



Btalactib - A . nal gallery heir crosses it, and from this crossing south- 

 wards the Long Gallery - the Longest stretch of upper Btalagmite 

 remaining unbroken in the cave. There is. however, a piece of it in 

 t!i<- roof further south, and between the two the upper stalagmite has 

 fallen, and jed in masses in the jaws of the trench, being 



ented together by fresher Btalagmite. In spite of being so splendid an 



it contained bnt few fossil bones, its Band-bed having 



iil washed away. It ends in an earthfall, bnt has there an 



opening to the east into a chambei that has communication by a deep passage 



with the Abyss, which is parallel with the Long Gallery. 



Fairy-laud. 



The • . \\ ■ -••,] the line of this gallery (between 2 and 3) 



where we find it in the Little Narrow Gallery, and we have traced one Bide 

 of it which remains in the southern pari of the Hyiena Ball. We have found 

 the Bouthen n of the Abyss running parallel with the Long Gallery 



in that direction ; but it i- the central portion, where it is besl preserved, that 

 now dem tention. 



We enter it by a s endiug from the alcove in the Elephant 



Hill, and there it is choked northwards by a high bed of Band surmounted by 

 an earthfall and fallen bli om this point southward the Abyss is clear 



for. _ ght and depth seem unbroken by tunnel or 



■. Portions of the upper stalagmite Bheetiug remain overhead, the west 

 wall beit . endicular Ixith above and below this Btalagmite, and the 



each which does not narrow nor expand much 



_:: its dark sides are unpven and rough. A high talus "i 



town from where we now enter the Abyss, and this contained 



