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The following item was transcribed from The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 29th April 1842 :
“SYDNEY NEWS.
“An immense natural cavern has been discovered at Burrangilong Creek, near Bathurst, by W. R. Davidson, Esq., assistant surveyor, which is about twice the size of the celebrated Fingal’s Cave, in the island of Staffa; and three or four times larger than Okey Hole, on the south side of the Mendip Hills. The roof and sides of the cavern are composed of stalactitae of every variety of colour, ‘white, yellow, pale pink and green,’ and every imaginable shape and size, ‘some oblong and conical, some round and irregular, twisted and turned into all imaginable fantastic diversities, griffins, and rampart lions, dead sheep, trussed fowls, sceptres, swords, and switches,’ at least so says Mr. Gilbert Wright, who furnished a long account of the discovery to the Sydney Herald, and according to whom this ‘is the sublimest and most fantastic of nature’s freaks.’ A large quantity of petrified wood, and a number of petrified bones of the wallabie and wombat, were found in the cavern, and the water which flows through it is of a highly petrifying nature. Its length is 720 feet, its greatest breadth 130 feet, its greatest height 100 feet, and its lowest height 17 feet.”
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