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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
[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
button -- "Bay Horse" -- Bay Horse
button -- "Breadagrth" -- Braida Garth
button -- Chapel-le-Dale
button -- "Wease, River" -- Doe, RiverDoe, River
button -- Ingleborough
button -- IngletonIngleton
button -- "Gingling Cave" -- Jingling Cave (?)
button -- Kingsdale Beck
button -- (quarry, Thornton in Lonsdale 2)
button -- "Whernside" -- Whernside

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