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The Dimenfions of this Cave I guefs to be as follows. 
Length about 35 Yards 
Breadth rz 
Ordinary Depth 14 rom Top to Bottom. 
Upon the furthermoft fide grows white Stuff, which 
the Pike man told us was Salt-Peter. There was both Ice 
and Snow in it when we were there .• arid the Ice was of a 
great Thicknefs covered with Water about Knee deep. 
We let down a Bottle at the End of a String for fom- of 
the Water, in which we put fome Sugar and drank ic, but 
it was the coldeft I ever drank in my Life. The ice 
was broken juft under the Mouth of it, where we could 
fee the Stones lye at the Bottom, for it was very clear. A 
little to the Right-hand within this. Cave the Ice was rifen 
up in a high heap, in form ofa Spire Steeple or like a Su- 
gar-Loaf ; and in this place 1 believe the Water comes in. 
1 fliould have been glad to have come at it, to let down 
a Line to try whether there may not be fome Hole that 
the Guide knows not of, that may be of a great Depth, 
In our w 7 ay home, we came by a Cave three or rout 
Miles from die Pike, where are a great many Skeletons 
and Bones of Men ; and fome fay there are the Bones of 
Giants in this Cave, but we know not how many Bodies 
are laid here, nor how far the Cave may go, 1 intend (God 
willing) to go again before I leave the Ifland, and then 
I’ll take a Light with me and fee what Difcoveries I can 
make. 
We came home to the Port at about fix a-Clock this 
Evening, being Thurfday Auguft 15. 1 715 N S. 
Whoever reads this, I hope, will pardon the Faults my 
Pen may have committed, for I was forc’d to write all 
Night; the Ship being to fail the next Morning, and I have 
not time to examine it. 
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TIT. 
