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SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I925 



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Fig. 79. — The western wall ol the laiings quarry. The dark spot in the 

 center is the opening to what remains of the stalagmite cave. On the left 

 is the 60-foot wall of limestone, from about the middle of which came the 

 anthropoid skull. On the extreme right is seen the semi-consolidated tilling 

 of a great old cavity in the rock. 



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Fig. 80. — Northern wall of the Taungs quarry. A darker patch slightly 

 to the right of the center and mid-way between the face and top of the cliff 

 shows the filled-in tunnel in which Dr. Hrdlicka found five fossil baboon 

 skulls. 



