Travels In England In 1782 By Charles P. Moritz





























































































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At length the great cavern in the rock closed itself, in the same
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At Length The Great Cavern In The Rock Closed Itself, In The Same Manner As Heaven And Earth Seem To Join Each Other, When We Came To A Little Door, Where An Old Woman Came Out Of One Of The Huts, And Brought Two Candles, Of Which We Each Took One.

My guide now opened the door, which completely shut out the faint glimmering of light, which, till then, it

Was still possible to perceive, and led us to the inmost centre of this dreary temple of old Chaos and Night, as if, till now, we had only been traversing the outer courts. The rock was here so low, that we were obliged to stoop very much for some few steps in order to get through; but how great was my astonishment, when we had passed this narrow passage and again stood upright, at once to perceive, as well as the feeble light of our candles would permit, the amazing length, breadth, and height of the cavern; compared to which the monstrous opening through which we had already passed was nothing!

After we had wandered here more than an hour, as beneath a dark and dusky sky, on a level, sandy soil, the rock gradually lowered itself, and we suddenly found ourselves on the edge of a broad river, which, from the glimmering of our candles amid the total darkness, suggested sundry interesting reflections. To the side of this river a small boat was moored, with some straw in its bottom. Into this boat my guide desired me to step, and lay myself down in it quite flat; because, as he said, towards the middle of the river, the rock would almost touch the water.

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