 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1802 - 654 pàgines
...the Cave, which ranges between two vast limestone rocks, and on the east is nearly 200 feet in depth. On the west it is skirted by the precipice which frowns over the great cavern, and rears its abrupt head to the height of 260 feet. The north side is the most accessible,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1802 - 652 pàgines
...the Cave, which ranges between two vast limestone rocks, and on the east is nearly 200 feet in depth. On the 'west it is skirted by the precipice which frowns over the great cavern, and rears its abrupt head to the height of 260 feet. The north side is the most accessible,... | |
 | William Woolnoth - 1823 - 346 pàgines
...PEAK ; from which the subjacent village of Castleton derives its name. The elevated situation of this fortress, and the almost perpendicular chasms that...partially insulate the rock which it occupies, must haverendered it nearly impregnable, prior to the use of artillery in sieges. On the east and south... | |
 | Stephen Glover - 1830 - 214 pàgines
...the Cave, which ranges between two vast limestone rocks, and on the east is nearly 200 feet in depth. On the west it is skirted by the precipice which frowns over the great cavern, and rears its abrupt head to the height of 260 feet. The north side is the most accessible,... | |
 | Thomas Dugdale - 1830 - 1078 pàgines
...cave, which ranges between two vast lime-stone rocks, and on the east is nearly 200 feet in depth. On the west it is skirted by the precipice which frowns over the great cavern, and rears ¡U abrupt head to the height of 260 feet. The Winnets, or Windgates. Immense... | |
 | Mr. Forsyth - 1833 - 354 pàgines
...in the novel of that name, may still relieve the disappointment of many of our antiquarian readers.t On the summit of a steep and rocky eminence, at the...rendered it nearly impregnable, prior to the use of ar*The vulgar, even in this most enlightened period, are not entirely exempt from the belief in the... | |
 | Mr. Forsyth - 1833 - 348 pàgines
...Cavern, stand the remains of the ancient ensile of the PEAK; from which the adjacent village of Castltton derives its name. The elevated situation of the fortress,...rendered it nearly impregnable, prior to the use of ar*The vulgar, even in this most enlightened period, are not entirely exempt from the belief in the... | |
 | William Adam - 1838 - 300 pàgines
...Cave-dale,* which ranges between two vast limestone rocks, and on the east is nearly 200 feet in depth. On the west it is skirted by the precipice which frowns over the great cavern, and rears its abrupt head to the height of 260 feet. The north side is the most accessible,... | |
 | Stephen Glover - 1845 - 196 pàgines
...the Cave, which ranges between two vast limestone rocks, and on the east is nearly 200 feet in depth. On the west it is skirted by the precipice which frowns over the great cavern, and rears its abrupt head to the heirht of 260 feet. The north side is the most accessible,... | |
 | W. Adam - 1852 - 96 pàgines
...which ranges between two vast limestone rocks, and on the east is nearly two hundred feet in depth. On the west it is skirted by the precipice which frowns over the great cavern, and rears its abrupt head to the height of two hundred and sixty feet. The north side... | |
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Cave, which ranges between two vast limestone rocks, and on the east is nearly 200 feet in depth. On the west it is skirted by the precipice which frowns over the great cavern, and rears its abrupt head to the height of 260 feet. 