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3rd edn addenda, page 231:-
yards we see a parabolic cascade, rushing from a hole nigh
the surface, and falling the whole 70 yards, with a roar,
which reverberated by the rocks above, confounds and
astonishes the most intrepid ear! The spray arising from
this cascade fills the whole cavern, and if the sun happens
to shine into it, generates a most vivid and surprising
rainbow, Another cascade, of not quite so great a fall,
issues perpendicularly from a projecting rock with equal
rapidity as the first, and is certainly a part of the same
subterraneous brook; they fall together into a narrow pool
at the bottom, which measures 37 yards in depth; and
proceeding underground about a mile, break out, and form the
large brook that runs by Ingleton, and from thence to the
river Lune. In the time of great rains, the subterraneous
channel that conveys away the water becomes too small, and
then the cavern fills to the depth of above 100 yards, and
runs over at the surface.
To a mind capable of being impressed with the grand and
sublime of nature, this is a scene that inspires a pleasure
chastised by astonishment! Personal safety also insinuates
itself into the various feelings, where both the eye and ear
are so tremendously assailed.- To see as much water as would
turn several mills, rush from a hole near 70 yards above the
eye, in such a projectile as shews its subterraneous fall to
be very considerable before it enters the cavern; and to see
the fine skirting of wood, with various fantastic roots and
shrubs, through a spray, enlivened by a perfect rainbow, so
far above the eye, and yet within the earth, has something
more romantic and awful in it than any thing of the kind in
the three kingdoms!
Ascending from the dark excavations we found at the bottom
of this dreary cavern, we once more bless ourselves in broad
day-light, and begin to mount the rugged sides of frowning
Ingleborough. Its top may have been a Roman station, for any
thing I know; there are certainly the remains
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