Any one who tarries for any length of time among these Yorkshire dales should read Mr. H. Speight's handsome volume, which gives a very complete account of the beauties and the curiosities which they have to show. Gaping Gill Hole, in Yorkshire, on the south side of Ingleborough, is most easily got at from Clapham, on the Midland Railway. It lies higher up than the well known Clapham or Ingleborough Cave, and both should be visited in the same expedition. The actual funnel is about 8 ft. There is a ledge of rock about 190 ft. down, from which a plumb line drops a further distance of 166 ft.
Strangers often pass close to the place without finding it.
Gordale Scar - a magnificent limestone ravine near Malham Cove, in Yorkshire, on the line of the great Craven Fault. It has been prosaically compared to a winding street between enormously high houses, with a river falling out of the first floor window of one of them. The most exaggerated ideas of its height formerly prevailed. Even in 1770 it was commonly reckoned at 3,987 ft., and Hartley actually gives 5,280 ft. Its top is only about four miles from Clapham, and ponies can go all the way.