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* Here are abundance of ftrange Places, the flooring 
*faeing a kind of a white Stone, enameled with Lead 
* Oar, and the pendent Rocks were glazed with Salt- 
* Peter, which diftillcdupon them from above, and time 
Vhad putrified. 
'After fome hours ftaythcre^ we afcended without 
* much hurt, other than fcratching our ftlves in divers 
* places by climbing the (harp Rocks. But four days 
' together, after my return from thence, I was troubled 
* with an unufual and violent Head-ach, which I impute 
' to my being in that Vault. This is a true account of that 
' Place Co much talkt of 
This Captain «S/^mj/ falling from his Head-ach into a 
Feaver and dying 5 what from his Death, and the Opi*- 
nion of an Evil Spirit, no body was willing to have any 
more to do with the faid Hole from that time to this. 
ButCaptainG///>/ Commander of the Merlin Yeacht 
f who is by His Ma jefty appointed to take a Survey of the 
Coaftof England^ coming into the Seternio that end, 
and vifiting Sir Robert Southml near Kwgrode^ and en- 
tertaining him from time to time with the Adventures of 
his Navigation (^having fhared in the late Voyage with 
Captain Wood to Nova ZemUa, and formerly Sayled ia 
the Ea^l Indies near as high as jf^/^^i») Sir Robert on his 
part, told him how the ftory ofthis Hole had amufed the 
Country 5 and how the faid Narrative had formerly been 
fent to Hu Maj el J and the Rojal Society^ and that" 
there wanted only fome courage, to find out the bo'tem 
of it. The Captain prelently refolved toadventure,and 
fo on the 18 and ic)th, of September 16S 2, he took ftve- 
ral of his meo, with Ropes and Tackling fitting to de- 
iccnd^ with Lines to meafure any Length or Depths alfo 
with. Candies, Torche?, aod .a fpeaking Trumpet. 
What he found dbes much lefl^o the Credit and Ter- 
rour of this H^^/e, as will appetir by the Figure he took 
thereof, and theDefcription following : > 
^ Tis dow^ the Ttinnel from ihe fuperficies to the 
^opening of the Cavity below, 39 Yards. Then the Hole 
* fpreading into an irregular oblong- figure^ is in the 
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