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II. A Leier to Charles Morton, M. D . 
Sec . i?. S. from Mr . Adam Walker ; 
containing an Account of the Cavern of 
Dunmore Park, near Kilkenny, in Ire- 
land. 
Dublin, April 26, 1771. 
S I R, 
Read Nov. 19, A S I do not find in your Tranfadtions 
1772 J~\. any account of the cave of Dun- 
more Park, about three miles Weft of Kilkenny, I 
beg leave to lay before your learned Society an ac- 
count of this fingular cavern, as near as an eye- 
furvey, and a few experiments on its ftones and pe- 
trefadtions, will admit. It is fituated in a fine plain, 
rifing indeed here and there into fmall hills. The 
country all round abounds with limeftone, and 
quaries of beautiful black marble, variegated with 
white fhells. Different from thofe of Derby fhire 
and Mendip, this cave defcends perpendicularly 
30 yards, from the top of a fmall hill, through an 
opening 40 yards in diameter. The Tides of this 
pit are limeffone-rock, whofe chinks nourifh variety 
of fhrubs and trees, down which the infpedtor muft 
defcend with great caution. In this defcent, he is 
amufed 
