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the present meadow. One of these recesses (rich with bones and implements), 

 along the mouth of which the meadow-hank and the artificial stream pass by, was 

 nearly choked with de"bris, fallen in, probably, from the back of the old talus since 

 the cave was deserted, the fallen rubbish of the cliff-face having been partly 

 pushed backwards, perhaps, when alternately muddy and frozen (3. Evans). 



In some cases flakings and fragments from the limestone roof seem to have 

 formed a breccia over the ossiferous deposits, at least near the sides of the cave. 

 Thus at Les Eyzies* the chief cave has a vaulted ceiling, ribbed with stalagmite, 

 and corniced with a rough edge of a hard band of limestone (see fig. 14) : the 

 cornice is wanting at one place ; and here the stalagmite has come lower down 

 the wall and cemented more breccia than elsewhere in the cave, showing that 

 at this place the fragments from the ceiling once formed a considerable mass 

 against the walls and above the ossiferous layers. 



T. E. 3. 



Fig. 14. 



b b 



a, Limestone. 



b, Hearth-stuff, with Bones, Flint Flakes, and Implements of Stone and Bone. 

 c, Breccia of Limestone, cemented with Stalagmite. 



Diagram of the Cave-deposits at Les Eyzies. 



See Lithographic Sketch, No. 2. 



