CHAP. VI. EXPLORATIONS OF THE BRIXHAM CAVE. 97 



influence on the subsequent progress of opinion in France, 

 I shall interrupt my account of the researches made in 

 the Valley of the Somme, bj^ a brief notice of those "which 

 were carried on in 1858 in Devonshire with more than 

 usual care and scientific method. Dr. Buekland, in his 

 celebrated work, entitled "Itcliquise Diluviana)," published 

 in 1823, in which he treated of the organic remains con- 

 tained in caves, fissures, and ''diluvial gravel" in England, 

 had given a clear statement of the results of his own original 

 obsei'vations, and had declared that none of the human bones 

 or stone implements met with by him in any of the caverns 

 could be considered to be as old as the mammoth and other 

 extinct quadrupeds. Opinions in harmony with this con- 

 clusion continued until very lately to be generally in vogue 

 in England; although about the time that Schmei'ling was 

 exploring the Liege caves, the Eev. Mr. M'Enery, a Eoman 

 Catholic priest, residing near Torquay, had found in a cave 

 one mile east of that town, called "Kent's Hole," in red loam 

 covered with stalagmite, not only bones of the mammoth, 

 tichorhine rhinoceros, cave-bear, and other mammalia, but 

 several remarkable flint tools, some of which he supposed to 

 be of great antiquity, while there were also remains of man 

 in the same cave of a later date.* 



About ten years afterwards, in a "Memoir on the Geology 

 of South Devon," published in 1842 by the Geological Society 

 of London,f an able geologist, Mr. Godwin-Austen, de- 

 clared that he had obtained in the same cave (Kent's Hole) 



"-■• The MS. and plates prepared for ments of an antique type and the 



a joint memoir on Kent's Hole, by bones of extinct animals. Two of 



Mr. M'Enery and Dr. Buekland, have these implements from Kent's Hole, 



recently been published by Mr. Vivian figured in plate 12 of the posthumous 



of Torquay, from which, as well as work above alluded to, approach 



from some of the unprinted MS., I very closely in form and size to tho 



infer that Mr. M'Enery only refrained common Abbeville implements. 



out of deference to Dr. Buekland from f Transactions of Geological Society 



declaring his belief in the contempo- 2d series, vol. vi. p. 444. 

 raneousness of certain flint imple- 



