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lish opinion was made to harmonise, notwithstanding that 

 testimony derived from the Torquay caves themselves was 

 not wanting to cast doubt upon it. For example, the Rev. 

 Mr. M'Enery, a Roman-Catholic priest residing near Tor- 

 quay, had found in a cave one mile east of that town, and 

 called Kent's Hole, not only bones of the mammoth and the 

 three-horned rhinoceros, the cave-boar, and other mammalia, 

 but several flint tools. There were also the remains of man 

 in the same cave, but these were considered to be of later 

 date. A farther exploration of Kent's Hole ten years later, 

 i. e. in 1842, by Mr. Godwin Austin, furnished new evidence. 

 The explorer testified that he had found works of man from 

 undisturbed loam or clay, and mingled with the remains of 

 extinct animals. He maintained that the hypothesis of sepul- 

 ture was not valid, seeing that not only human bones were 

 found, but flint implements, the work of man also, and dis- 

 tributed extensively throughout the loam underneath the 

 stalagmite. Three or four miles west of Torquay, at Brixham, 

 a new and undisturbed bone-cave was discovered in 1850, 

 and systematically examined, the Royal Society having made 

 two grants towards defraying the expenses. The result was 

 very interesting. Bones were found of the reindeer, the mam- 

 moth, the three-horned rhinoceros, of the cave-lion, cave- 

 bear, and cave-hyena species, all extinct. No human bones 

 were discovered, but an abundance of flint implements, that 

 could only have been made by human hands ; and these im- 

 plements were found in a geological formation underneath, 

 and therefore older than the one on which rested the quad- 

 rupedal bones. Hence the evidence went to prove that the 

 quadrupeds must have come to die above the instruments 

 made by human hands, not that the instruments got mingled 

 with some then ancient bones. 



Whilst these discoveries made at Brixham had tended to 

 shake the belief expressed by Professor Sedgwick, evidence 

 even stronger had been accumulating on the Continent. For 



