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NARRATIVE
ON PRINT - This
cavern was discovered so recently as in September
1842. Some quarrymen who were engaged in preparing
stones for the building of the New Harbour
accidentally opened up the entrance, a narrow
gorge, which had been filled with rocks that
had fallen from the cliff. The discovery attracted
much attention at the time, and a party of
ladies and gentlemen, having constituted themselves
an exploring expedition, and being provided
with torches, made their way into the cavern
by the narrow and difficult passage, the gleaming
lights revealing in all their beauty the stalactites
which then hung uninjured from the walls and
roof. (Notes by George Hay, 1883)
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