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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Discovery of an extensive underground chain of cells beneath a house in Long Lane, Borough, London, possibly for religious purposes, featuring a stone cross, images, and scattered human skulls and skeletons.
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Dec. 12. A wonderful chain of cells has been discovered within this week under the cellar of a house in Long lane in the Borough. The descent is through a trap-door of iron, which long has remained unknown; but the house being lately taken by a new tenant, in cleaning the cellar this door was discovered. The width (as far as those who went down have ventured) is about twenty feet; the length is unknown, fear having prevented the curious from going farther than about half a mile. There seems to have been regular apartments for some religious purposes; as over the entrance of the door there is a large stone cross, and a few little images, particularly one of David playing upon his harp, were found; the whole appears arched with large hewn stone, and extends perhaps several miles.
This is no fabricated story for the purpose of exciting wonder; it is the recital of a fact, which any one who doubts may have proved to their satisfaction. Numbers of skulls and parts of human skeletons appear dispersed throughout the place, and these have not a little intimidated the vulgar in the neighbourhood.
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Long Lane In The Borough, London
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Within This Week
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numbers of skulls and parts of human skeletons appear dispersed throughout the place
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A wonderful chain of cells has been discovered under the cellar of a house in Long lane in the Borough. The descent is through a trap-door of iron, which long has remained unknown; but the house being lately taken by a new tenant, in cleaning the cellar this door was discovered. The width is about twenty feet; the length is unknown, fear having prevented the curious from going farther than about half a mile. There seems to have been regular apartments for some religious purposes; as over the entrance of the door there is a large stone cross, and a few little images, particularly one of David playing upon his harp, were found; the whole appears arched with large hewn stone, and extends perhaps several miles. This is no fabricated story for the purpose of exciting wonder; it is the recital of a fact, which any one who doubts may have proved to their satisfaction. Numbers of skulls and parts of human skeletons appear dispersed throughout the place, and these have not a little intimidated the vulgar in the neighbourhood.