the various and wonderful effects of both, a cause that is infinite, wife, and powerful. The Deity is every where present, and every where active. His power is indefinently working, gives existence to the various creatures, and produces the most noble phænomena in nature. All we fee, all we feel, fire and water, the univerfal variety of inanimate and animate creatures, are only the effects of his creating power constantly repeated. The existence of the whole world is a continual new creation; and therefore it becomes the bounden duty of all rational creatures, to worthip this Almighty Power, as well for his works of creation, as for the ways of his providence. Great and wonderful are thy works, O Lord God Almighty: and juft and righteous are thy ways, O King of faints; who would not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name, because thou only art holy.

Another loch

on the top of a high moun

tain, and a

Swallow in

the bottom.

39. From the burning fountain we proceeded for half an hour in the fame valley right onwards, and then turned to the left in a course to the weft, for about a mile, which brought us to the bottom of a steep mountain, we muft afcend, or go no farther. It was hard to get the horses over this, and no lefs difficult

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ficult to defcend with them to a deep bottom on the other fide of the hill: but with great hazard to ourselves and the beafts, we came down in fafety. On the top of this mountain I faw another large loch that was black as ink in appearance, tho' bright when taken up in a glafs; which (as before obferved) must be owing, I fuppofe, to its top communicating with the abyfs below; and in the bottom we de-. fcended to, there was a fwallow larger than the one I faw before. I could make no discovery as to its depth, either by line or found; nor did my lead touch any water. On the floping way from the first. chafm in day to the gulph, were several lateral chambers, that defcended one yard in fix but though the bottom was hard, the horrors of the places hindered me from going far. I went to the end of the first, which was 67 yards, and having looked into the fecond, to which a narrow fhort pafs leads the inquirer, I made what hafte I could back; for the opening dif covered a space so vast, difmal, and frightful, that it ftrikes one to the heart.

The

bottom, as far as my light could enable me to diftinguish, was a continuance of stone; but neither top nor fides were to be feen. It is a horrible place.

40. Leaving

40. Leaving this bottom,

arch thro' a

mountain in

a delightful Spot of ground.

we mounted another very high An amazing and dangerous hill, and from the top of it defcended into twenty acres of as rich and beautiful ground as my eyes had ever feen. It was covered with flowers and aromatic herbs; and had, in the center of it, a little grove of beautiful trees; among which were fruits of feveral kinds. A flowing fpring of the pureft water was in the middle of this fweet little wood, and ran in pretty windings over the ground. It refreshed and adorned the field, and it was beautiful to fee the deer from the hills, and the goats come down from the cliffs, to drink at thefe ftreams. The whole was furrounded with precipices that afcended above the clouds, and through one of these rocky mountains there was an opening that had a stupendous appearance.

It was a vaft amazing arch, that had some resemblance of the gothic ifle of a large cathedral church, and terminated in a view of rocks hanging over rocks in a manner frightful to behold. It ineafured an hundred yards in length, forty in breadth, and I judged it to be fifty yards high. The pending rocks in view inclofed a space

of four acres, as it appeared to me, and the bottom was fo very deep that it looked like night below. What line I had could not reach it, nor could I make any thing of the depth by found. It feemed to me to be a vaft fwallow that went down to the abyfs. The whole was a fcene that harrowed the foul with horror.

An extracrdinary paffage thro' the

mountains.

41. By the fpring in the little grove I have mentioned, I fat down at eight in the morning, to breakfast on fomething that one of my fquires produced from his ftore, while the other was looking for a paffage or way onwards, between thofe vaft precipices that furrounded us. Two hours he wafted in an enquiry, and then returned to let me know, there was no paffage that he could find: the inclofed rocks were one continued chain of unpaffable mountains. Here then I thought was my ne plus ultra. As the man affirmed there was no getting beyond the vaft inclofing cliffs that walled in this charming fpot of earth, I imagined for fome time, that I must of neceffity return, and give over all thoughts of getting to the borders of Cumberland or Bishoprick that way. It seemed impoffible to proceed, and that was no small trouble to my mind. It

was

was a great journey round, and if I did ride it, I knew not where to turn in on the confines of the country my friend lived on; for I had loft his directions, and had only a small remembrance of his dwelling fomewhere on the north edge of Weftmoreland or Yorkshire, or on the adjoining borders of Cumberland, or the county of Durham. What to do I could not for fome time tell: going back I did not at all like, and therefore, to avoid it if posfible, refolved to pass the day in trying if I could find any way out, without climbing the mountain again that I had lately come down. Round then I walked, once, and to no manner of purpose, for I did not fee any kind of pafs; but the fecond time, as I marched on obferving the hill, I took notice of a large clump of great trees in an angle or deep corner, that feemed to stand very oddly, and in the mountain above them there appeared, as I thought, a distance or space that looked like an opening. I foon found it was fo, and that at the back of this little wood, there lay a very narrow way, only broad enough for two horfes a-breaft; that it extended due weft for more than a mile, and then weft-northweft for a quarter of a mile, till it terminated in a plain that was feveral miles