36 PAPEBS, ETC. 



Here the question may occur to some one, " Were there 

 any human beings inhabiting the island at the time?" 

 You will, I have no doubt, anticipate the answer, which I 

 at least would give. 1 believe that the period to which 

 these animal remains belong was immediately anterior to 

 the last great change which prepared the earth for the re- 

 ccption of the human race. I know that the fact that 

 portions of human skeletons have been found in some of 

 the caverns, may at first sight seem to overthrow my posi- 

 tion ; but when each alledged case is carefully investigated, 

 it will be found that the human remains belong to a much 

 more recent period. Thus, according to Mr. Phelps in 

 bis History of Somerset, human remains have been found 

 at Wookey Hole. There is a true bone cavern at Wookey 

 Hole, which has been discovered only during the present 

 year, but that to which Mr. Phelps refers has long been 

 known, and, like those at Cheddar, has never been said to 

 have contained the class of animal remains to which this 

 paper is spccially devoted. The case at Wookey therefore 

 goes for nothing. Besides, this cave has been accessiblc 

 from time immemorial. The name it bears proves it to 

 have been known to the Keltic inhabitants of the land 

 before the Saxon invasion. " Wookey" is clearly a cor- 

 ruption of the Welsh " Ogo," which to the present day 

 means a " cavern." But in the cave called Goat's Hole, 

 at Paviland, in Glamorganshire, we have a case in point. 

 There a human skeleton was found lying on the remains 

 of the elephant, rhinoceros, the bear and the tiger. The 

 lato Dean of Westminster, Dr. Buckland, describes this 

 cavern in bis Reliquice Diluviance, p. 82. It is in the lime- 

 stone and opens on the face of the sea-cliff. The tide 

 reaches the base of the ancient diluvial deposit within. 

 The animal remains are of precisely the same class with 



