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This was most obligingly communicated, accompanied by an 
invitation to examine his collection of specimens obtained 
from thence, and also the offer of his services as guide, if we 
wished to visit the caves in his neighbourhood. This offer 
we most gladly accepted, and went over to Settle on the 
22nd of August last. After inspecting, with much interest, 
Mr. Jackson's collection of personal ornaments, coins, 
pottery, and mammalian remains, we proceeded to that 
series of caves in the immediate vicinity, at King's Scar, 
which are all situated in the side of a lofty precipitous cliff, 
at the elevation of about 1,460 feet above the level of the 
sea, and 900 feet above the town of Settle. The approach 
to which is somewhat toilsome from the nature of the ground, 
covered over, as it is, with fragments of rocks, and huge 
blocks of trap, the wreck of countless centuries. 
" Crags, knolls, and mounds confusedly hurled, 
The fragments of an earlier world." 
The most accessible is the Victoria Cave. This had 
probably three entrances, two of which are now partially 
closed by the debris of the superincumbent precipitous rock. 
The descent into this cave is rather difficult : entering by a 
steep fissure you have to crawl through a low and narrow 
passage into a cave in which you can scarcely stand upright ; 
then through a second contracted aperture into a lofty cavern. 
The floor is covered with stalagmite and clay, and strewn 
over with blocks of limestone which have fallen from the 
roof; hence, by a third and nearly closed passage, you enter 
another large compartment. Besides these caves there are 
lateral fissures, whose terminations are not known. So small 
indeed are some of the apertures through which we had to 
pass, that it was necessary to take off our coats and hats, and 
in this lizard-like mode of progression, Mr. O'Callaghan left 
his shirt studs in the cave. These, when discovered by some 
future archaeologist, will probably form the subject for a 
