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found bctween Crewkerne and Ilminster. These, hovvever, 

 occur only in solitary or isolated examples, and do not pro- 

 duce the impression which the number and variety brought 

 to Hght in the Mendip district is calculated to effect. 

 This renders it the more necessary to pay particular 

 attention to the Mendip Caverns, in which these remains 

 have been found in great quantities ; and to endeavour to 

 ascertain the circumstances under which the bones came 

 there, and the agencies by which the caverns were after- 

 wards filled with sand, and their original entrances covered 

 over. 



The Mendip ränge, in which the bone caverns occur, are 

 füll of interest to the antiquarian and the naturalist. From 

 Crooks-beak, so prominent a feature in the landscape to 

 the traveller on the Bristol and Exeter Railway, to within 

 a mile of Frome, you may travel uninterruptedly on the 

 Mountain Limestone. The same geological formation oc- 

 curs, likewise, in masses on the flanks, and at the extre- 

 mity of the main ränge, as in Banwell Hill, and in the hüls 

 above Hutton, stretching to Uphill and the sea at Brean- 

 Down. The intervals between these masses, and likewise 

 the sides of the main ränge, are, for the most part, covered 

 with the marls and rocks of the New Red sandstone series. 

 The district abonnds in deep and tortuous gullies ; in some 

 cases assuming the form of immense chasms, as at Cheddar ; 

 a feature, which plainly indicates the disturbing forces to 

 which these hüls have been exposed, and by which proba- 

 bly they were upheaved. 



The evidence of rents and upheavals abound in every 

 direction, on the surface and below the surface. Of the 

 former, the " Swallets" are a striking illustration, associ- 

 ated with the large streams which in several places gush 

 forth from the livin"' rock. Below the lower works of the 



