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Show MODERN CAVE DWELLERS. Comfoittbl Vlllua Cnrrod Out ot Rmk by Civilian itt K lurr Eds, Eugland, Although there is nothing inherently inher-ently improbable in the circumstance, circum-stance, it is not generally known that the race of troglodytes is not yet extinct, and. that there are at least quite a number of cave dwellers in modern Britain. The inhabitants are by no means half savages. At Kinver Edge, near Birmingham, are two rows of modern villas, formed mainly out of the "immemorial "imme-morial caves hollowed out of the hill," with stone-front projections. These dwellings are said to be "far more comfortable and luxurious than the less-original houses to be found in more pretentious neighborhoods." neighbor-hoods." The rooms are "spacious and rain-proof" and the people of Enville, "as the village formed by these houses is called, are justly proud of their quaint homes, and speak with patriotic affection of Holy Austin rock, the stone from which their dwellings are hewn." - x There are several remarkable cave dwellings in Knaresborough, in Yorkshire, York-shire, says the Detroit News-Tribune, the "proprietor" of one of which I has adorned the various levels of his hillside cave home with battlements and calls it Fort-Montague. |
