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scapula, radius, atlas, and ischium. The last four specimens 

 were from a very young animal. A Cetacean was repre- 

 sented by a single phalanx, evidently fragmentary, and only 

 one and a quarter inch in length. This phalanx belongs to 

 near the extremity of a digit. 



From the seal there were part of the right mandible, con- 

 taining two typical teeth, and also the right half of the 

 promontory of the sacrum. 



Among the remaining fragments there were many portions 

 of the shafts of such bones as the humerus and femur, with 

 portions of ribs, which might quite well have belonged to the 

 deer and sheep, so far as their size was concerned. Some of 

 them were tooth-marked, and one rib fragment had been cut 

 with a powerful, clean-cutting, sharp-edged weapon. 



The fish-bones in the collection were from the head, jaws, 

 vertebrae, and fins, etc., and they were all of considerable 

 size. I have not attempted to identify these. 



So far as the identification and examination of the various 

 fragments is concerned, they do not suggest any great 

 antiquity for the ancient accumulators of the " midden," nor 

 any special climatic conditions under which they lived. At 

 the same time, they provide evidence of a varied diet on the 

 part of the inhabitants of the cave, a variety which took 

 nothing amiss, and which, with the true instinct of the pot- 

 hunter, regarded the Cetacean and the red-deer, the sheep 

 and the seal, as welcome interludes in the monotony of a 

 diet of fish and oysters. 



The presence of the dog as the companion and assistant of 

 this early hunter is suggested by the gnawed condition of 

 many of the bones, but of the animal itself no skeletal remains 

 were discoverable among the broken fragments which have been 

 collected. If the human remains which have been gathered 

 really correspond in age with the other parts of the collection, 

 then their form of interment, to judge from the gnawed con- 

 dition of one of the femora, must have been hasty and 

 indifferent. 



