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these, as an interesting account of the cave, read at the Culler- 

 coats meeting, by Mr. T. T. Clarke, will shortly be published in 

 the Transactions. 



Leaving the cave our party divided, one section returning 

 homewards, the other, intent on seeing the Gaping Gill Pot Hole, 

 extended their journey in search of it. The track to it lay by 

 Trow Gill to the moorland, and we followed it in a driving mist 

 rolling down from the Ingleborough heights. "We found nothing 

 to indicate the exact spot, and it was with difficulty that we at 

 length discovered the unguarded and dangerous abyss. It re- 

 sembles a pit shaft, and the opening, which appeared to be about 

 twenty-five feet in diameter, lies in a cup-like hollow, by the 

 sides of which we approached it with a feeling of awe. The 

 depth is said to be about three hundred feet, and this we partially 

 verified by timing the descent of stones we cast into it. A 

 mountain stream, formed by the drainage of the east side of 

 Ingleborough hill, falls into the cavity, and emerges into day- 

 light after a subterraneous passage of nearly a mile, the latter 

 part of which is through Ingleborough Cave, which we had just 

 left. 



The next day was wet, and some of the party returned to 

 I^ewcastle. Others, however, were anxious to see the Museum 

 at Giggleswick, in which are deposited many of the things of 

 interest discovered in the Victoria Cave. Here were the remains 

 of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, bear, hyena, reindeer, 

 and other animals. There are also articles of stone, brass, iron, 

 bone, glass, silver, and lead. 



"We also visited the old Church, which is most interesting, and 

 which it is to be hoped may be saved from the hands of that 

 most ruthless iconoclast, the modern restorer. 



The old stone houses of the district are of great interest, and 

 show how their builders towered over the ordinary builders of 

 this age in knowledge of proportion, that first element of archi- 

 tectural design. 



The Third Meeting was held at Crag Lough and Sewing 

 [Shields, on Monday, the 16th of July. Half-a-dozen members 



