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XXVIII. An Account of certain remarkable Pits or Caverns in the Earth, in the County of Berks. By the Hon. Daines Barrington, V.P.S. In a Letter to the Rev. Dr. Douglas, F.S.A.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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The Society having so often indulged me in laying before them what hath occurred in relation to antiquities, emboldens me (through your friendly introduction) to give some account of a large extent of pits, which I conceive to have been excavated in most remote ages, before the inhabitants of this island were the least civilized.
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page 236 note [a] The depths of these pits vary from 7 to 22 feet, the diameters of sȯme being 40 feet.
page 237 note [b] They are so called in a survey of 1687.
page 238 note [c] Strabo, l. viii.
page 238 note [d] Musgrave on the Græcian Mythology.
page 239 note [e] Armstrong's Minorca. p. 223, 224.
page 239 note [f] Vol. VIII. p. 119.
page 240 note [g] See the History of Kamskatska, where there is an engraving of what is here described, the whole of which is confirmed to me by a sea officer who visited these parts on the last voyage of discovery. The account of Kamskatska above alluded to is translated from the Russian by Dr. Grieve, 4to, 1764. I may also refer to the represenation of such a subterraneous dwelling, in captain King's account of Kamskatska.
page 240 note [h] A Kamskatska family is also completely secured in such an habitation from the ravages of wild beasts during the winter, as they cannot descend by the awkward ladder, which the natives make use of.
page 241 note [i] Such a village is called an Ostrog, in the Russian language.
page 242 note [k] See also Levesque's Russia, t. i. p. 40, 41; and Coxe's Russian Discoveries, p. 149.