about sevpnh, Derbyshire, ' 61 
prevent its course 
"anding the oWarl« Notwith- 
of Stone, it was sountlpr! ^ {toshes and projecting masses 
two hundred and two ffeet~ ^’'ceed 
With the assertion of three estimate which corresponds 
search of the bodies of inr|- descended in 
yere supposed to havfbe^^'lu'^ and 
>nto tliis frightful abyss. ™ murdered, and tlirown 
PEAK CAVERN. 
i, oneof Ihose 
ton and is approached hv the vicinity 0} Castle- 
twulet, leading to the fissure ^ ^ 
Je extremity of which the ’ '®PR';ation of the rock, at 
ffioult to imagine a seem mo"™ It would be 
P esents itself to the visitor Tt t! *^tit which 
«te huge grey rocks r e f entrance ; on each side, 
of nea„, ^ hmidf Perpendicularly, to the 
height of ' modeirTlmme seien times 
frim formTde^"'^’ meeting each other at 
aimei "''erhung by a vast gloomy recess. In 
h^r " pressed arohTJ°^ ^^^“ming tlve 
inme“^^™j®"d twenty feet “jl extending, in width, 
ninety fe^t'^"^*’ ®^°ut ninety "a forty-twoj and 
gentle / cavern, the 'roof P®tietrating about 
trance t^®tRahedrock ?o d' “ 
in.,- °t tins tremendous holinxv tlie interior en- 
*'tor if diminished, wholly df™ 
provided with a torch to ill ^ ‘^'^appears -, and the vi- 
ohV *4 now becomln his further progress. 
L Pt°eeed, in a stnoni ^ ®*b emely confined, he is 
and"'' ’^^at^bes a spacious^ Posture, about twenty yards, 
aho '! I^®'tce led to a sm^H named the Bell-house, 
tT in k J, akc, called the Rrsi JVaUr. 
m depUi. Over thf! t,’ ^ "^ore than two or three 
^vtr tins he is conveyed in a boat to the £! 
