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Page 251:-
gingling noise for a considerable time. At intervals we could
hear nothing of their descent; then again we heard them resound
in deeper keys, till they were either immersed in some deep pool,
or arrived at too great a distance to be heard: for there seemed
a variety of different passages for their descent, some being
much sooner intercepted in their career than others. Two dogs
that were with us, and a small horse brought up by one of the
party, seemed violently agitated, and under fearful trepidations,
under horrors resembling those we are told the animal creation
are seized with preceeding or during an earthquake. Though our
reason convinced us of the impossibility of the ground falling in
beneath us, we could not but feel many apprehensions, accompanied
with sensations hitherto unknown.- We could not learn that any
swain had ever been adventurous enough to be let down by ropes in
the vast hiatus, to explore those unseen regions, either from a
principle of curiosity, or to search for hidden mines.- We were
informed of some other openings into this mountain, of a like
kind with Gingling-cave, but being at a distance, and of an
inferior nature, we returned to Yordas for our horses, which we
had pent up in the sheep folds, and proceeding down the vale, we
crossed over it at the bottom to Twisleton, and soon arrived at
Ingleton.
[1] After we had regaled and rested ourselves comfortably at the
Bay-horse, we took an evening walk, about a mile above the town,
to the slate quarries by the side of the river Wease, or Greta,
which comes down out of Chapel-in-the-Dale, and joins the
Kingsdale river at Ingleton. Here we had objects both of nature
and art to amuse ourselves with. On one
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[1]
If the tourist would proceed immediately to Chapel-in-the-Dale,
he may go either below Breada-garth to Twisleton, and then turn
up the vale to Chapel-in-the-dale; or, which is a nearer road, he
may cross Kingsdale above Breada-garth, and ascend the mountain,
pursuing a rough and not well-defined road, taking care to keep
on the south-west side of a swamp, near a hill, or a heap of
stones called a hurder, on the base of Whernside, and then to
turn round the west corner of the mountain: afterwards he must
turn his course easterly, along the base of the mountain, till he
comes to some lanes, any of which will lead him, by some houses,
down to the chapel, in the middle of the vale between Whernside
and Ingleborough.
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gazetteer links
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-- "Bay Horse" -- Bay Horse
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-- "Breadagrth" -- Braida Garth
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-- Chapel-le-Dale
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-- "Wease, River" -- Doe, RiverDoe, River
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-- Ingleborough
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-- IngletonIngleton
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-- "Gingling Cave" -- Jingling Cave (?)
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-- Kingsdale Beck
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-- (quarry, Thornton in Lonsdale 2)
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-- "Whernside" -- Whernside
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