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•perceived a frtiial] hole, or cleft; but could not, without 
•being in danger of my liie, get at it; and^IJound 
.great difheuky in coming; down again. 
' After this prt receding forward, 1 came- to another 
•pile of incruftatinns, different from the two former, 
and much rougher; and which was not tinged with 
fuch a yellow, but rather with a brown colour ; and at 
the top of this alio is a 'final 1 cavern, into which I went. 
The lafl thing I took notice of was the vafl; drops 
of ftaladlites, hanging like’icicles from every part of 
the vault; fome of which were as large as a man’s 
body, and at leald four or five feet long. 
I obferved the greatefl part of the walls of the large 
cavern was lined with incruftalions, and that they 
were of three kinds: the firft, being the deep yellow 
flaladfites ; the fecond, being a thin coating, like a 
kind of light ftone-coloured varnifh upon the furface 
of^ the limeffone, and which glittered exceedingly by 
the light of the candles ; and the third being a fort 
of rough cfHorefcence, every minute (hoot refembling 
a kind of rofe-fiower. 
Having fatisfied my curiofity with a view of this 
aftonifliip.g vault, I began to return (oblerving the 
whole floor to be covered with vafl quantities of loofe 
ffoncs); and reafeending that heap, which 1 firft 
mentioned, and fo returning through the arch which 
leparatcd the two vaults, I perceived, that though it 
is now only about three yards high, yet it mull for- 
merly (before the (lones were flung in), have been a 
' very magnificent entrance. 
Once more^faflening the rope to my body, I gave 
the lignal to be drawn up, which I found to be a 
4uuch more difHcult and dangerous tafle than my 
• delcent, 
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