The rock, which contained spar, consisted of solid bedrock and the walls were for the most part as smooth as if they had been constructed of cut or faced stone, though some strata – particularly in the roof – projected farther than others. There was a hole in the roof that was said to be the chimney, but I do not know whether it had been drilled out by man. The rock could be split lengthwise into stones, all of which were rectangular. Large pebbles or rectangular fragments lay on the floor. I am quite certain that nature itself created this cave but that man has cleared out the stones. The cave-mouth was fairly large and so even the smallest objects within were visible. Drips fell from the roof close to the inner wall. ‘Polypodium’ [Common Polypody], ‘Trichomanes’ [Maidenhair Spleenwort] and some other ferns were growing out of the rock. The roof was concave like a vault. Outside the mouth, which was so big that it accounted for one eighth of the wall area of the cave, there had earlier been a ‘Salix’ [willow] growing but it was chopped down when King Charles XI was travelling past. It had grown back but the people have cut it off again.