The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, Volume 8W. Creech, 1793 |
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Page 53 - About the middle there is an. aperture, eight feet long and two broad. Near the end: .there is another twenty feet long and four broad. Round this aperture are large pieces of rock ; one of which having fallen in, and being jammed between the sides, divides' it into two, and forms a convenient resting place for taking the depth of the chasm, which is here twenty-two' feet, in the middle thirty-two,- and at the mouth about forty.
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