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wide cavern, from whicli several nari'ow passages are said to have 

 led in various directions. One of these passages, which opens into the 

 cavern at a height of about six feet from its floor, was entered, and 

 found to run to a length of about twenty feet, when it terminated in 

 a second cavernous chamber. It was close to the termination of 

 this passage in the second chamber that Sir James Cochrane came 

 upon the remains which form the subject of this communication, 

 and which were brought to this country by Captain Sayers. It 

 would seem that since the cavern was partially explored by the 

 learned judge, it had been but very rarely visited, and, so far as the 

 author knew, never by any competent observer. The site in which 

 the entrance to this cavern is placed is at a level about 200 feet 

 lower than that of the Windmill High Flats. One of the most curious 

 questions to be solved relative to this, the Judges' Cave, is as to the 

 way by which human beings had gained access to its interior. The 

 only external opening at present disclosed, like that of the G-enista 

 Cave, appears to be very narrow, and to have been covered from 

 time immemorial with a considerable thickness of soil ; and the 

 internal passage above-mentioned is so constructed as with difficulty 

 to allow of a man's creeping through it at full length The en- 

 trance, moreover, of this passage is so high above the floor of the 

 first cavern, as to render a ladder necessary to reach it. How under 

 these circumstances, or for what reason, the human beings whose 

 remains were discovered by Sir James Cochi'ane made their way 

 into the place where the bones lay, is at present shrouded in com- 

 plete mystery. The principal human bones in the collection com- 

 prise a nearly perfect cranium, a lower jaw not belonging to it, 

 tibise all more or less presenting the platycnemic character, one 

 nearly entire, and portions of another ; fibulae of the same type, and 

 belonging to diff'erent individuals ; a nearly entii^e male os innomin- 

 atum ; some vertebrae, portion of a sacrum, &c. Most of these 

 bones, but not all of them, were more or less covered with a hard, 

 grey, calcareous concretion, containing numerous specimens of a 

 Helix and one or two other land-shells, whilst others were merely 

 coated with a uniform crystalline deposit of carbonate of lime of 

 the same grey colour, however, as the indurated calcareous mud, 

 of which the more massive matrix was formed. The cranium espe- 

 cially, and one of the tibiae, were imbedded in a very thick and solid 

 mass of tiiis substance. The cranium is nearly perfect : the only 

 important deficiency is the want of the lower jaw — that forwarded 



