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A Defcription 
of Elden Hole, in Derbyshire. 
Having often heard, and feen, feveral account? 
of the unfadiomable depth of Elden Hole, in Der- 
byfhire, and being in that neighbourhood, I was 
inclined ta make what enquiries I could about that 
noted place, of the adjoining inhabitanrs j who in- 
formed me, that about fourteen or fifteen years ago, 
the owner of the paflure in which this chafm is 
fituated, having loft feveral cattle, had agreed with 
two men for to fill it up ; but they, finding no vifible 
effedls of their labour, after having fpent fome days 
in throwing down many loads of ftones, ventured to 
be let down into it, to fee if their undertaking was 
pradicable ; when upon finding at the bottom a pro- 
digious large cavern, they defifted from their work, 
as it would have been almoft impoflible to have pro- 
cured a fufHcient quantity of ftones to have filled it 
up. 
Upon enquiry of one of thefe men whether there 
were any damps at the bottom ; and being affured in 
the negative ; I procured two ropes of forty fa- 
thom nearly in length, and eight men to let me 
down. 
As the entrance is fo well known, I fhall fay no- 
thing further of it, than merely, that it lies near 
North and South in its direction lengthways j and that 
the opening from one of thofe points to the other, at 
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