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cavern at Caflleton i for it is obferved by the coun^ 
try-people in the neighbourhood, that there is a large 
quantity of grit ftone grows in the earth near Eideii 
Hole, but none near Caflleton ; and yet, on high 
floods, the river at Caflleton waflies great quantities 
of fragments of that very grit-flone, out of the mouth 
of Caflleton cavern. 
There is alio a tradition, which, however ridiculous 
it appears at firft fight, ought to have feme little 
weight ; efpecially if compared with what Keyder 
and Dr. Brown * relate of the Zirchnitzer Tea in Car- 
niola. The tradition is this, that many years ago, 
a poor old woman, hunting her gool'e, it tied from 
her, and at laft fell down into Elden Hole, to her 
great forrowj but fome days alter, (he heard it was 
feen at the mouth of Caflleton cavern, and adlually 
received it fafe again from thence: the goofe having, 
by the fluttering of its wings, preferved itielf from be- 
ing dafhed to pieces in its fall; and having found 
its paffage fafely through the lubterraneous river. 
I have added thefe few obfervations, for the fake 
of preferving the tradition cocerning the fecond fhaft, 
which otherwile perhaps would very foon be lofl; 
and alfo for the fake of fliewing how great a pro- 
bability there is of its being true : and to explain the 
matter more fully, I have ventured to add a fifth 
drawing, though merely from conjedlure. 
But before 1 conclude, I mufl beg leave to obferve, 
that the difpofition of the mafies ol flaladlites in this 
cavern, feems to me to ddeive Come attention. Of 
the three great piles of incruflaiions, two maniferiiy 
See Keyller’s Travels 8vo. Vol. IV. p. 140, and Lowthorp’s 
Abridgement of the Philofophical TranlacSlions, Vol. II. r. 306. 
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