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throughout of any Extent. It is all over, even in 
the Depth of Winter, as dry as any Place of the kind 
under-ground can be } and what feems very prodi- 
gious,; is, that it often pours forth fuch a Deluge as 
corvers the. adjacent Plain, fometimes with above 
twenty Feet Depth of Water. 
The Times of its overflowing are uncertain and 
irregular ; fometimes it does not happen above once 
in a Year or two, but moft commonly Three or Four 
times' a Year : It is fometimes obferved to fucceed 
great Rains and Storms, though it often happens 
without either. 
The ireighbouring Inhabitants are alarmed at its 
Approach, by a great Noife, as of many falling Wa- 
ters at a Diftancej which continues for fome Hours 
before, and generally all the time of the Flood. 
The Water cotUes forth with extreme Rapidity 
from the Mouth of the Cave, and likewife from 
fome fmaller Holes in the low Ground, attended 
with a furprifing Npife : It flows for a Day or two, 
and al\vays returns into the fame Cave, and partly 
into the fmall Holes, from whence it was obferved to 
come before, but with a more flow and tardy Courfe. 
The Water is of a putrid Quality, like ftagnated 
Pond-water, infipid as Spring- water. It always leaves 
a filthy muddy Scum upon the Ground it covered, 
which greatly enriches the Soil. 
It has been known fometimes (though rarely) to 
overflow and ebb in fix or eight Hours time, but in 
a much lefs Quantity. 
There is neither River or Lake any-where in that 
Part of the Country, and it is above Six Miles from 
the Sea. There are very near it feveral much lower 
A a a Valleys, 
