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The “‘King-maker” was Constable in the days of Epwarp IV. 
A fine forest view expands from the castle heights, reminding 
the spectators rather of scenes in the Hartz Mountains or the 
Black Forest, than of those amongst the cultivated hills and 
dales of England. 
So-much time had been occupied in and around St. Briavels 
that none was to spare for the contemplated visit to Newland 
church, which had in consequence to be abandoned. The 
dinner hour summoned the party to Coleford, where an excellent 
repast awaited them at the Angel Inn. 
After dinner the thanks of the Society were given to Sir 
Joun Mactan for his hospitality; and on the call of the 
President, Mr. Symonps gave an account of his experiences in 
caves and cave-hunting. He led his hearers to the caves by 
the banks of the Lesse, in Belgium, where years ago, in company 
with the President, he had examined the habitations and the 
remains of pre-historic men and pre-historic animals. He 
reminded the President how they had together explored bone 
caves on the shores of the sunny Mediterranean in France and 
Italy, and had beheld the fossil skeletons of pre-historic men 
who had been buried there when the mammoth and the hyena 
roamed where now are the orange and lemon groves of the 
sunny south; and how they had traced the track of the glacier 
as it swept over the Cols of the Maritime Alps right down to 
the waters of the Mediterranean. He referred to the bone 
caves of various parts. of England; to those of Banwell and 
Wookey-Hole, near. Wells, those at Gower, near Swansea, and 
those far away by Settle in Yorkshire. With reference to 
these latter, he entirely agreed with Mr. Tiwprman that a 
glacier from Ingleborough had passed over the entrance to the 
Victoria cave since it: was occupied by hyenas, and wondered 
that Geologists could visit that district. and escape seeing this 
important fact. He wound up the cave history with an account 
of King Arrnur’s cave on the Doward, and begged that some 
of the working Geologists of the Club would assist him in 
unravelling some of the more: difficult problems which yet 
surround the Wye pebbles in the caves, and the excavation of 
the gorge of the river. 
