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Buxton 6 .:^ eak's Hole^ and '^7. Tool's 
Hole. The Firft being a Work, not of Nature, but 
Art, does not come within the Defign of this Ac- 
count. . Mam-tor is a huge Precipice facing theEafl, 
or Sonth'Eafl: ; which is faid to be perpetually 
fhivering and throwing down great Stones on a {mail- 
er Mountain below it ; and that neverthelels, nei- 
ther the one increafes, nor the other decreafes in 
Biguefs; This. Mountain is compofed chiefly of a 
Sort of Slate-Stone (called in that Country Black 
•Shale ) and great Stone. • The Nature of the Black 
Shale is known to be, that notwithflanding it is ve- 
ry hard before it is expofed to the Air ; yet it is 
afterwards very eafily crumbled to Dufl. Thus on 
any Storm, or melting of Snow, this Shale is con- 
fiderably wafted ; and as the great Stones are gra- 
dually difcngaged, thft:y muft neceftarily fall down. 
That it is only at theft Times that the Mountain 
waftes, is affirmed by the moft intelligent of the - 
neighbouring Inhabitants : And that this Decay is- ' 
not perpetual, I can affirm myftlf ; having not only 
taken a clofe Survey of it, but alfo climbed up the 
very Precipice, without feeing any other fliiverin<r 
in the Mountain, than what the treading of my 
own Feet in the looft crumbled Earth occafioned. 
That the Mountain does not decreaft in the mean 
Time, is a Tale too frivolous to need any Con- 
fideration. 
Elden-hole^ is a huge perpendicular Chafm. The 
Depth of it is not known. Mr. Cotton tells us, that 
he founded 884 Yards, and yet the Plummet drew. 
But he might eafily be deceived, unlefs his Plummet 
was of a very great Weight ; for otherwife, I imagine 
