MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
There is no recollection of the mouth of the ‘“‘cave” and 
this may have been covered or obstructed. Inside, the 
crevice enlarged to a cavern which at its maximum meas- 
ured probably over thirty feet in breadth and twice as 
much in height. 
For some distance from the mouth of the cavern the 
floor of the latter was nearly level or but moderately 
inclined, then there was a steeper descending slope, and 
after that the crevice ran irregularly downward and 
inward. 
The outer part of the cavern was largely filled with 
more or less mineralized and consolidated bones of 
animals, cave detritus, large quantities of bones of bats 
or small rodents, and nondescript earthy material, the 
walls being covered with crystals of the ores of zinc and 
vanadium. The larger bones were distributed unequally 
through the filling of the cave, in some places there being 
large quantities of them, in others few or none. They 
extended to and beyond the descent in the floor. 
The lowest and innermost part of the cavern was filled 
by detritus, some bones, and by a considerable layer, or 
rather layers, of very pure and more or less crumbly lead 
ore. The ore contained no bones or foreign substance; 
but it is not absolutely known whether the contents of the 
farther part of the cavern had a direct connection with the 
materials in the large outer portion through or under- 
neath this lead ore. 
The skull was found at some distance beneath a layer— 
according to Mr. Zwigelaar’s recollection, about ten feet 
thick—of this ore. It was not itself embedded in the ore 
but in a detrital material not mineralized to any extent 
and containing a quantity of “‘bat’”’ bones. 
The skull was an isolated object. It lay upright. There 
was no lower jaw, nor any other bone in apposition. Be- 
neath it was something which looked like a large, flattened 
skin bundle, thoroughly mineralized. This may or may 
not have been merely a natural laminar formation of 
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