Bob Mehew
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My brother (who is into antiquarian books) mentioned to me a report by R J Sullivan in 1778 of a 980 foot deep 3 mile long cavern in the Ppeak District. I have found that this is a reference to Sullivan's ?A Tour through parts of England, Scotland and Wales in a series of letters?. A copy of Volume Two is available on Goggle Books at
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bjWru6Uj7LIC&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq=suliven+high+peak+tour+1778&source=bl&ots=ylB95zNo-f&sig=ACfU3U0wMzoOHxVj5humhKUHNuoDKwsF3A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjyhZCP6brpAhXkRxUIHc7uBtEQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=suliven%20high%20peak%20tour%201778&f=false
and is downloadable as a searchable pdf.
Letter XVIII on p94 of the pdf does mention 3 mile length of a cavern which they explore with the "miners about Caftleton [Castleton]". The entrance on p95 of the pdf is described as ?the top of the mountain, where the feiffure [?seissure] opens itfelf [itself] about three feet in diameter?. On p96 of the pdf, reference is made to this shaft being 420 feet perpendicular. On p101 of the pdf, the statement is made that ?Altogether, the depth we had defcended [descended] was about one hundred and forty fathom, or nine hundred and eighty feet, and the length about three miles, according to the miners? calculation.?
Does any known which mine this might have been?
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bjWru6Uj7LIC&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq=suliven+high+peak+tour+1778&source=bl&ots=ylB95zNo-f&sig=ACfU3U0wMzoOHxVj5humhKUHNuoDKwsF3A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjyhZCP6brpAhXkRxUIHc7uBtEQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=suliven%20high%20peak%20tour%201778&f=false
and is downloadable as a searchable pdf.
Letter XVIII on p94 of the pdf does mention 3 mile length of a cavern which they explore with the "miners about Caftleton [Castleton]". The entrance on p95 of the pdf is described as ?the top of the mountain, where the feiffure [?seissure] opens itfelf [itself] about three feet in diameter?. On p96 of the pdf, reference is made to this shaft being 420 feet perpendicular. On p101 of the pdf, the statement is made that ?Altogether, the depth we had defcended [descended] was about one hundred and forty fathom, or nine hundred and eighty feet, and the length about three miles, according to the miners? calculation.?
Does any known which mine this might have been?