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inquilitive Sea-man (he has writ a large Folio of N^^i- 
gationy would deeds defcend into it, and his Narative 
was as followeth : 
* Upon the fecond of July 1669. I defcended fay 
* Ropes affixt at the top of an old Lead-Oar Pit, four 
* I'athdms almoft Perpendicular, and from thence three 
' Fathom's more obliquely, between two great Rocks, 
' where I found the Mouth j of this fpacious Place: from 
* which, a Mine-man and my felf lowred our fdves by 
* Ropes twenty five Fathoms perpendicular, into a very 
* large Place, whi^h reftmbled to us the form of a 
' Horle-fhoo 5 for we ftuck lighted Candles all the way 
' we went, to difcover what we could find Remarkable: 
^ At length we came to a River or great Water, which I 
* found to be twenty Fathoms broad, and eight Fathoms 
* deep* The Mine-man would have perfvvaded me, that 
* this River ebbed and flowed,for that fome ten Fathoms 
* above the place, we now were in, we found the Wa« 
* ter had fometime been : but 1 proved the contrary, 
* by flaying there from three hours Floud to two hours 
*Ebb, in which time we found no alteration of thisRi- 
* ver. Befides its waters were frefh, fweet and cool, and 
* the furface of this Water, as it is now at eight Fathom 
^decp, lies lower than the bottom of any part of the 
* i/ens-Sea near us, fb that it can have no community 
^ with it, and confequently neither flux nor reflux, but 
' in Winter and Summer,as all Stagnas5Lakes and Loughs 
* f which I take this to be) have. As we were walking 
* by this River thirty two Fathoms under ground, we 
* difcovered a great hollownefi in a Rock, fome thirty 
' foot above us 5 fo that I got a Ladder down to us, and 
^ the Mine-man went up the Ladder to that Place, and 
* walk'd into it about threefcore and ten Paces, till he 
* juftloft fight of me, and from thence chearfully caird 
' to me, and told me he had found what he looked 
* for, a Rich Mine. But his joy was prefently changed 
into amazement, and he returned affrighted by the 
' fight of an Evil Spirit, which we cannot perfwade him 
*but he faw, and for that reafoq will go thither no 
*more. ^ *Here 
