waters dropping y^t is but what is Customary among rocks and stones, there are many springs w^{ch} run in y^e veines of y^e Earth and allwayes are running in such subteraneus vaults in the Earth, w^{ch} gather together and runns in a little Channell in y^e bottom of this Cave as you may step one. The 4th wonder is that off Elden hole about 2 mile from Buxton; its on y^e side of a hill about 30 yards if not better in length at y^e brimm, and half so broad, and just in sight is full of Craggy stones like a Rock for about 2 or 3 yards down, w^{ch} Contracts the Mouth of y^e hole to about 4 yards long and 2 broad or thereabouts; w^{ch} hole is Suppos’d to run down directly a vast length and has been try’d w^{th} a Line and plummet severall fathom and the bottom not Sounded, tho’ some are of opinion its because the hole runns aslant so the plummet and Line Could not pass, and what we observ’d gives some strength to this notion, for Cast a stone down you hear it Strike a long tyme at the sides of y^e hole, and if you go down below 100 y^{ds} or more and Lay y^r head to the ground you shall hear the stone ring Much longer than those that stand at the holes mouth, w^{ch} must discover y^e ground to be hollow at Least much farther in Compass than the mouth of y^e hole, but its Certain it must be of a great depth by reason of the tyme you Can hear a stone strike and ring in its descending, and y^t which Lessens the sound may be by its breaking against the sides. Its a very hazardous place, for if a man or beast be too near the Edge of y^e bank and trip they fall in w^{th} out retrieve. Y^e beasts graze in the Grounds and hills but it must be some great force that drives them near the hole; there is a sort of instinct in Nature, self preservation and a great sence of danger in beasts; its reported that severall Attempts have been made to ffence the whole round w^{th} a stone Wall as the manner of the fences are all over y^t Country, but yet it has been all in vaine. What they built up in the day would be pull’d down in y^e night and so its vaine to trye y^e securing it round from any falling in—this the people tell us. The Country here about is so full of moore or quagmires and such precipices that one that is a stranger Cannot travell w^{th} out a guide, and some of them are put to a Loss sometymes. The fifth wonder is Mamtour w^{ch} is a high hill that Looks Exactly round, but on the side next Castleton w^{ch} is a Little town in the High Peake on that side its all broken that it Looks just in resemblance as a great Hay-Ricke y^{ts} Cut down one halfe on one side—that describes it most naturall. This is all sand, and on that broken side the sand keeps trickling down allwayes Especially when there is the Least wind of w^{ch} I believe this Country scarce Ever is w^{th}out; many places of the hill Looks hollow and Loose w^{ch} makes it very dangerous to ascend and none does attempt it, y^e sand being Loose slips y^e foote back againe.