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In the fame diftrid): fbuthward is th e !noted mountain of Torghat- ^ “5"^
"ten, - f©'3fe'alfed!’fp&.; the Hfcenefs of its -top to a -man’s head with m ,
the hat 1®$ under whim-appears a iingle gye,* which is formed •
'-fey- an aperture, pafia'blekjhreiaghout, an hundred’ and fifty eUs
in height, and c-three thdijfahd iij fengtfh, thro15' which“ -the fun
may fee feen; it^dSkfewife* afFo^dS'^a^- coarfe --kind df agate,
but which will admit- of •‘a 'polilh. On >the top pf this mountain
is a piece -of-water,'-or ahffefervoir, -of the dimenfions of a moderate
'fiih-pdndF'TKe -raid-water, which 'gathers iffeeres, trickles dbwn
'the mountain thro’ fiffures-' arfd-hia&ks -oh-its-dide. In- ’the - lower
part of this mountain - is1 alfo "a-c^ve^'lull? df rugged’windings. A
dine -ef^Fdurhundred; fathom,^feeing'tried but of cutfidfiSy,1 to-iaea-
fure this1 hiatus, • did not reach dKe dbottom ; an'd it* was thought
too'dangerous to proceed further; !
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Such fecret-pafiages,- and ^wonderful .caverns in the.-tnountains, D«eP and
are far from ; befeg. uncommon here. At Herroe in .§ugid#iog£ aqA-asitwere
I heard much talk; from, the common people* o f a cavern called
Dolfteen, and, as they are apt to iinaghify all fuck likings Jay4hgj|^P^p|iie
■owii imaginations, they, conceit tjhat it-.reaches under -fehe ifea^ray.onginoftliem'-
al&n-gitbvScotland. I^efi-tedt-hfe two rninifler$ao£,th.e place
ifenally to infdrm- themfelvds: o f the nature df it $ - .and they acCord-
ifitglycfent me .the following written acoomit.
Purfuant'td x>ur promifc of .taking, a’ view’of -the e’a^ern-ip Cava-n m
' i h e d m d u h i a m m F . we went ‘thither on *! ’
17^0,; iitsentrancp was the height ©f a full-grown 'man, and i t is
-twokfethcsms ain: fe^adihf 7 feut iwe immediately found it -toiiu-
^eceafe • in both .dimenfions, .evenhigher and Widef.,;thaft: Ijlcrroe
church.: The fides were perpendicular, dike vfh©
rifine into a kind of vaulted rfoqf; -5It ftretched itfelf 'S. W. and
hi. E. LtillatB©m||hs middle, whejjs^.we met with, a .cfesfcent h'kf>
jihfe ffceps .of flairs,, and them k inclines .more to |h e eaft, hut this
deflection is not above three or four fathom lpng>',wheb it again
Jails into its north-eaff dir,e<9S6n. .On each .fide, at the-bottom of
Jhde'^eps, ^ s as’it were a fefcds-pjf oby^hjidilsh» yjh refled our-»
JHkes\ afitdiat the end; of thefe banks, -hkewife on eachd^de, was
a. kind of - door with an x>yal" top, .but upon «viewing it with ©ig
P art I. O lights,;