When I Had Laid Myself Down As Directed, He Himself Jumped Into The
Water, And Drew The Boat After Him.
All around us was one still, solemn, and deadly silence; and as the
boat advanced, the rock seemed to stoop, and come nearer and nearer
to us, till at length it nearly touched my face; and as I lay, I
could hardly hold the candle upright.
I seemed to myself to be in a
coffin rather than in a boat, as I had no room to stir hand or foot
till we had passed this frightful strait, and the rock rose again on
the other side, where my guide once more handed me ashore.
The cavern was now become, all at once, broad and high: and then
suddenly it was again low and narrow.
I observed on both sides as we passed along a prodigious number of
great and small petrified plants and animals, which, however, we
could not examine, unless we had been disposed to spend some days in
the cavern.
And thus we arrived at the opposite side, at the second river or
stream, which, however, was not so broad as the first, as one may
see across it to the other side; across this stream my guide carried
me on his shoulders, because there was here no boat to carry us
over.
From thence we only went a few steps farther, when we came to a very
small piece of water which extended itself lengthways, and led us to
the end of the cavern.
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