OF 



A CAVE, CONTAINING FOSSIL TEETH 



AND BONES, DISCOVERED AT 



KIRKDALE, IN YORKSHIRE. 



I SHOULB not have entered on the publication 

 of this Memoir, had I not been urged to it by 

 several literary gentlemen of the first respec- 

 tability ; who observed, that the valuable accounts 

 already published, were inserted in voluminous 

 and expensive works, adapted more for public 

 Institutions, than for general circulation ; and, as 

 I had paid particular attention to the Cave from 

 the first discovery of it, they hoped, that 1 would 

 not withold from public notice my thoughts on so 

 interesting a subject : being thus invited, I have 

 commenced the work. 



I shall endeavour to present this Volume to the 

 public, in as interesting a manner, as I possibly 

 can ; and though I may differ in a few things from 

 my literary friends, I shall not claim the charac- 

 ter of infallibility ; but shall leave my thoughts 

 to the judgment of those to whom I offer them, 

 Difference of opinion is entertained on most sub- 

 jects, and is sometimes particularly useful ; it rous- 

 es investigation to action, and removes the vail 

 which had been drawn before the face of truth, 

 A 



