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The Genius Of Liberty.
will not take our patterns from France . If self-interest an ! faction have crept in amongst us , Ave will have them out again , ^ depend upon it ; but we have the materials Avithin ourselves for a noble ori ginality of action . When the solidity of QUI- national genius so far outweighs that of our neighbours , why should Ave slavishly adhere to their fashionAvhen it insults our feelingsand becomes
-, , repug nant to our understandings . ' The tacit expression of every face I looked at seemed to say , ' We never will . We may giA r e Frenchmen leave to dictate ouf stile of hair-dressing , but the internal economy of our heads Ave will still have the firmness to superintend ourselves . ' P .
Singular Account Of The Devil's Peak And Elden Hole, In Derbyshire.
SINGULAR ACCOUNT OF THE DEVIL ' s PEAK AND ELDEN HOLE , IN DERBYSHIRE .
( FROM A MS . WRITTEN IN I 705 . )
UNDER an old castle , called the Castle in the Peak , which signifies to appear aloft , is a cave or hole within the ground , called the Devil's Peak , which gapes with a wide mouth , and hath in it many turnings and retiring rooms and is reckoned one of the Wonders of England . The other place , called Elden Hole , and which lies two miles distant from Casfjeton , a town in the high
Peak , is within the Peak forest ; it descends directly doAvn into the earth , is about thirty yards long , and fifteen yards broad at top , but is much straiter Avhen it comes forty yards deep . You may see into it about sixty yards , so far the light going into the mouth of the Hole , which is very fearful to look into , being a face of a rock on each side . In the year 1598 one Mr . Henry Cavendish ( eldest
brother to Sir Charles Cavendish ) who had spent all his days in travel , had been at Jerusalem , and several other parts of the Avorld , hearing of this place , came to it , and caused engines to be made to let a man into this Hole , which being done , one George Bradley , of the Peak forest , was let down with a rope ei ghty j'ards Jono- . Then another engine Avas made to let him go eighty yards farther ;
and at the end thereof , a third engine was made , whereby he was let down eighty yards more . At the top of the rope was fastened a bell , Avhich he AV _ to ring if he could go no farther , or would return back ; but when he was let doAvn almost the third ei ghty yards , he rung the bell , and being drawn up , he was much affrighted , remained speechless for a timeand was struck with lameness : but
, after he recovered his speech , he declared , as he descended doAvn , he saw the bones of deer , sheep , and other cattle , and also of men , and that he was affrig hted ; but how , or in what manner , he could not tell . He lived several years after this rash experiment , but never was in perfect memory , nor sound of his limbs .
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The Genius Of Liberty.
will not take our patterns from France . If self-interest an ! faction have crept in amongst us , Ave will have them out again , ^ depend upon it ; but we have the materials Avithin ourselves for a noble ori ginality of action . When the solidity of QUI- national genius so far outweighs that of our neighbours , why should Ave slavishly adhere to their fashionAvhen it insults our feelingsand becomes
-, , repug nant to our understandings . ' The tacit expression of every face I looked at seemed to say , ' We never will . We may giA r e Frenchmen leave to dictate ouf stile of hair-dressing , but the internal economy of our heads Ave will still have the firmness to superintend ourselves . ' P .
Singular Account Of The Devil's Peak And Elden Hole, In Derbyshire.
SINGULAR ACCOUNT OF THE DEVIL ' s PEAK AND ELDEN HOLE , IN DERBYSHIRE .
( FROM A MS . WRITTEN IN I 705 . )
UNDER an old castle , called the Castle in the Peak , which signifies to appear aloft , is a cave or hole within the ground , called the Devil's Peak , which gapes with a wide mouth , and hath in it many turnings and retiring rooms and is reckoned one of the Wonders of England . The other place , called Elden Hole , and which lies two miles distant from Casfjeton , a town in the high
Peak , is within the Peak forest ; it descends directly doAvn into the earth , is about thirty yards long , and fifteen yards broad at top , but is much straiter Avhen it comes forty yards deep . You may see into it about sixty yards , so far the light going into the mouth of the Hole , which is very fearful to look into , being a face of a rock on each side . In the year 1598 one Mr . Henry Cavendish ( eldest
brother to Sir Charles Cavendish ) who had spent all his days in travel , had been at Jerusalem , and several other parts of the Avorld , hearing of this place , came to it , and caused engines to be made to let a man into this Hole , which being done , one George Bradley , of the Peak forest , was let down with a rope ei ghty j'ards Jono- . Then another engine Avas made to let him go eighty yards farther ;
and at the end thereof , a third engine was made , whereby he was let down eighty yards more . At the top of the rope was fastened a bell , Avhich he AV _ to ring if he could go no farther , or would return back ; but when he was let doAvn almost the third ei ghty yards , he rung the bell , and being drawn up , he was much affrighted , remained speechless for a timeand was struck with lameness : but
, after he recovered his speech , he declared , as he descended doAvn , he saw the bones of deer , sheep , and other cattle , and also of men , and that he was affrig hted ; but how , or in what manner , he could not tell . He lived several years after this rash experiment , but never was in perfect memory , nor sound of his limbs .