1822-1824.] 
GOAT HOLE. 
“ I know how they fared every day, 
Can tell Sunday’s from Saturday’s dinner; 
What rats they devoured, can say, 
When the game of the forest grew thinner. 
'‘Your elk of the bogs was a meat 
That each common hunt might obtain, 
But an elephant’s haunch was a treat 
They only could hope now and then. 
“ Mystic cavern ! the gloom of thy cell, 
Shedding light on each point that was dark, 
Tells the hour by Shrewsbury clock 
When Noah went into the ark. 
“By the crust on the stalactite floor, 
The post-Adamite ages I’ve reckoned— 
Summed their years, days, and hours, and more, 
And find it comes right to a second. 
"Mystic cavern! thy clearness sublime 
All the chasms of history supply; 
What was done ere the birthday of Time, 
Through one other such hole I could spy.” 
Another famous cave was Paviland or Goat Hole, in 
the district of Gower. This discovery is on the coast of 
Glamorganshire, fifteen miles west of Swansea, between 
Oxwich Bay and the Worm’s Head, on the property of 
C. M. Talbot, Esq., of Penrice Castle. It consists of two 
large caves facing the sea in the front of a lofty cliff of 
limestone, which rises more than one hundred feet perpen¬ 
dicularly above the mouth of the caves, and below them 
slopes at an angle of 40° to the water’s edge, presenting 
the bluff and ragged shores to the waves, which are very 
violent along this north coast of the estuary of the 
Severn. These caves are altogether invisible from the 
