A wilder locality, or one of more sinister aspect, can hardly be imagined.

The cave is not spacious within; it is merely a dark hole among great granite rocks.

By means of a lantern or torch you can penetrate to a distance of seventy feet or more.
One day when three of us boys had gone to Overset Pond to fish for trout we plucked up our courage and crawled into it.

We crept along for what seemed to us a great distance till we found the passage obstructed by a rock that had apparently fallen from overhead.

We could move the stone a little, but we did not dare to tamper with it much, for fear that other stones from above would fall.