A fissure in the soft rock attracted our attention.

It was about wide enough for one person to enter without squeezing, and extended back into the hill some eighteen or twenty feet in a straight course, sloping afterward to the left.

The height of the opening, is far as we could see into it from the main gorge, was perhaps sixty or seventy feet.

There were one or two stunted shrubs growing from the crevices, bearing a species of filbert which I felt some curiosity to examine, and pushed in briskly for that purpose, gathering five or six of the nuts at a grasp, and then hastily retreating.

As I turned, I found that Peters and Allen had followed me.