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of Art at G-ibraltar," by Professor Busk, F.E.S. These remains and 

 relics were chiefly from two caves, the "Genista" and the " Judges' 

 Cave." The human remains found in the first, together with the 

 implements, articles of earthenware, and certain of the mammalian, 

 fish, and most of the bird-bones, as well as the greater part of the 

 marine shells, were all contained in the highest part of the cave 

 above the uppermost of the several stalagmite floors noticed by Cap- 

 tain Broome. The space thus noticed varied in depth from the roof 

 to the floor from 14 to 18 feet, the greatest depth in it at which 

 human remains have been met with was little more than 10 feet. 

 It would thus seem that the floor of this cavern had been covered 

 to some depth with a deposit before any human bones had gained 

 admission into it. Most of the mammalian bones immediately as- 

 sociated with those of man in it exhibit precisely the same general 

 characters as the human bones themselves, and difi'er notably in this 

 respect from the older, more fossilized bones procured from beneath 

 the stalagmite floors and in the deeper parts of the fissure. The 

 mammals thus referred to as bearing intrinsic evidence of their close 

 association with man are a species of Bos, of the size and propor- 

 tion of the common domestic ox, of difi"erent sizes; ofCapra hircus^ 

 Sus domesticiis (?) Miis rattus, Lepiis twiidus, L. cimiculus, MeJes 

 taxus, Canis Vulpes, Phoccena, sp. &c., whilst of fishes are numerous 

 bones of the Tunny, and of other smaller forms not yet determined, 

 and of several birds, which have also not as yet been gone into suf- 

 ficiently to allow^ of the determination of the species. The remains 

 (/f articles of earthenware are very abundant, though most are in a 

 very fragmentary condition. Amongst them, however, is one quite 

 perfect small urn. A large portion of them appear to have been 

 made without the use of the potter's wheel, and these are also com- 

 posed of a very coarse and imperfectly burnt black clay, though 

 reddened to a little depth on the surface. Those articles which 

 have been fashioned on the wheel are for the most part of a finer 

 or more carefully prepared material, and they are also more 

 thoroughly burnt. The implements of difl'erent kinds found in the 

 cave, though not very numerous, are of considerable interest. With 

 one exception, they are of stone or of bone. Human bones belong- 

 ing to nearly every region of the body are found ; but by far the 

 larger portion of the collection consists of fragments of crania, and 

 of the bones of the upper and lower extremities, the latter predo- 

 minating. Though hardly any of these fragments can be fitted 

 together, thev suffice to show that the skull must have been of a large 



