The tinkler-gypsies . yet another cave on the western people, who have been in the principalcave, and thought they had fully explored it,have never seen this high crevice, or had anysuspicion that there was another cave enteringonly from the top of the interior wall of theprincipal one. In the event of this latter beingbesieged and taken, this second cave wouldprove a useful refuge, not likely to be easilydiscovered. Altogether, the place is a veryinteresting one. No doubt the cave was usedby smugglers, and amongst others, by thatnotorious Dutch Captain, Hawkins (Yawkins),the Dirk Ha
The tinkler-gypsies . yet another cave on the western people, who have been in the principalcave, and thought they had fully explored it,have never seen this high crevice, or had anysuspicion that there was another cave enteringonly from the top of the interior wall of theprincipal one. In the event of this latter beingbesieged and taken, this second cave wouldprove a useful refuge, not likely to be easilydiscovered. Altogether, the place is a veryinteresting one. No doubt the cave was usedby smugglers, and amongst others, by thatnotorious Dutch Captain, Hawkins (Yawkins),the Dirk Hatteraick of Guy Mannering, who |long visited the coast with contraband goods,setting Revenue officers and cutters, and thelaws of God and man, at defiance. The description of the cave itself in GuyMannering corresponds very closely with theabove, and the access to it from the Carsluithside is very graphically described by Sir Walterswords : We maun go the precise track, saidMeg Mcrrilies, and continued to go Yawkius and Billy and Flora Marshall. 69 but rather in a zig-zag and involved course thanaccording to her former steady and direct hneof motion. At length she guided them throughthe mazes of the wood to a little open glade ofabout a quarter of an acre, surrounded by treesand bushes, and which made a wild and irregularboundary. Even in winter it was a shelteredand snugly sequestered spot; but when arrayedin the verdure of spring, the earth sending forthall its wild flowers, the shrubs spreading theirwaste of blossom around it, and the weepingbirches which towered over the underwood,drooping their long and leafy fibres to interceptthe sun, it must have seemed a place for ayouthful poet to study his earliest sonnet, or apair of lovers to exchange their first mutualavowal of affection. With the aid of a flash light photograph, ofthe cave, kindly lent by Mrs Cliff-MCuUochot Kirkclaugh, Mr M. ML. Harper has beenable to produce an excellent black and whilesketch ol Billy
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