iUBTtKaANEQUS WONDSiS. 
" this place, of which hot * ftint idea can be ■ jt 
covered with one solid arch at Wst one hundre« 
“ high, and to all appearance entire.” u! 
Having entered the area, the Doctor perceived hve ^ 
avenues leading from it, from sixty to one hundred / 
width, and about forty in height. The stone waij 
arched, and were from forty to eighty feet perpendio 
height before the commencement ot the arch. ^ 
In exploring these avenues, the precaution was ta^ ^ 
cut arrows, pointing to the mouth of the 
stones beneath the feet, to prevent any difficulty m 
turn. The first vdiich was traversed, took a soo^^. 
direction for more than two miles j when a secoi' w 
taken, which led first east, and then north, J 
two miles further. These windings at length ^ 
the party, by another avenue, to the chief city 
after having traversed difterent avenues for jl>' 
five miles. Having reposed for a lew minutes ° y 
of limestone near the centre of this gloomy are*^:. 
refreshed themselves and trimmed their lampSy: 
depaited a .second lime, through an avenue almost i 
parallel with the one leading from the chief cit)' 
mouth of the cavern ; and, having proceeded up’>' f 
two miles, came to the second city. This is covei 
a single arch, nearly two hundred feet high in „V‘ 
and is very similar to the chief city, except in the 
of its avenues which are two only. They crosseo^j^|.(#s 
a very consideiable rise in the centre, and descended 
an avenue which bore to the east, to the distance o‘ 
a mile, when they came to a third area, or cit)b 
hundred feet square, and fifty in height, which ha 
and delightful slieam of water is.suiiig from ihv 
a wall about thirty feet high, and which tell on ,/ 
surface of stone, and was allerwards entirely 
Having passed a few yards beyond this bd‘'dh 
of water, so as to reach the end of the avenne, 
returned about one hundred yards, and passing j,/ 
sidcrable mass of stone, entered munher, but siiud'd ,_i‘ 
to the right, which carried tliem south, liirough a ,i, 
uncommoniy black hue, somewhat more than a / 
they ascended a very steep hill about sixty 
ehnducted them to within the v,’alls of the fourti 
