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and so wide as to permit, in some places, two per- 

 sons to pass.... From this branch are two others, still 

 smaller, the one extending twenty -two feet north, 

 the other fourteen south ; and, in width, admitting 

 one person. 



At first, a solitary gloom impresses the spectator ; 

 while a ray of light makes its way among the inden- 

 tures of the ingulphing rock, faintly touching the 

 sides and roof of the lower abyss, but just so as to 

 display the awful grandeur of the scenery. Another 

 opening is perceived, leading into a still lower re- 

 gion, where light appears to have, comparatively 

 speaking, no dominion. A sound made above is 

 heard reverberating, and dying below, as if it was in 

 an unfathomable deep. There also is an amazing 

 contrast of light and darkness ; the one strikes terror, 

 the other creates joy. However, although darkness 

 in a natural sense is fancied to be an instrumentality 

 of misery, yet it is a consoling reHection to know iii 

 a spiritual sense, that light and darkness, as well as 

 heat and cold, height and depth, are but relative 

 terms; and that, with that Being, who is the 

 Author of nature, there is neithe? the one nor the 

 ^)ther...,All are alike to him, who 



^« Lives thro' all life, extends thro' all extent. 

 Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; 

 To him no high, no low, no great, no small. 

 He fills, he bounds, connects and equals all.'' 



The following account of the caVe on the Swatara 

 river, is given in the words of the late rev. P. Mil- 

 ler of Ephrata.* 



* Trans, Amer. PWl. Soc. vol. 2. 



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