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two or three turns to the right and left, you 
enter a long passage about thirteen feet wide* 
and perhaps about fifteen in height perpen¬ 
dicularly ; but if it was measured from the 
floor to the highest pa t of the roof obliquely* 
the distance would be found much greater* 
as the walls on both sides slope very consider¬ 
ably* and finally meet at top. This passage 
descends very rapidly* and is* I should sup¬ 
pose* about sixty yards long. Towards the 
end it narrows considerably* and terminates in 
a pool of clear water* about three or four feet 
deep. How far this pool extends it is impossi¬ 
ble to say. A canoe was once brought down 
by a party* for the purpose of examination* 
but they said* that after proceeding a little 
way upon the Water the canoe would not float* 
and they were forced to return. Their fears* 
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most probably* led them to fancy it was so. 
I fired a pistol with a ball over the water* but 
the report was echoed from the after part of 
the cavern* and not from that part beyond the 
water* so that I should not suppose the passage 
extended much farther than could be traced 
with the eye. The walls of this passage con¬ 
sist of a solid rock or limestone on en h side* 
which appears to have been sepa ated by 
some convulsion. The floor is of a deep sandy 
dearth* and it has repeatedly been dug up for 
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