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animals ever did more than make occasional visits to Brixham 
save. The latter contained no flint-chips, no bone-tools, no 
utilized Pecten-shells, no bits of charcoal, and no coprolites 
of Hyena, all of which occurred in the cave-earth of Kent's 
Hole. 
2nd. In the Torquay Cave relics of Hyena were much more 
abundant in the cave-earth than those of any other species. 
Taking the teeth alone, of which vast numbers were found, those 
of the Hyena amounted to about 30 per cent. of the entire series, 
notwithstanding the fact that, compared with most of the cave- 
mammals, his jaws, when furnished completely, possess but few 
teeth. At Brixham, on the other hand, his relics of all kinds 
amounted to no more than 8'5 per cent. of all the osseous remains, 
whilst those of the Bear rose to 53 per cent. 
8rd. The entrances of Brixham Cavern were completely filled 
up and its history suspended not later than the end of the Palzo- 
lithic era. Nothing occurred within it from the days when 
Devonshire was occupied by the Cave and Grizzly Bears, Reindeer, 
Rhinoceros, Cave Lion, Mammoth, and Man, whose best tools 
were unpolished flints, until the quarrymen broke into it early in 
A.D. 1858. Kent’s Cavern, on the contrary, seems to have never 
been closed, never unvisited by man, from the earliest Paleolithic 
times to our own, with the possible exception of the Neolithic 
era, of which it cannot be said to have yielded any certain 
evidence. 
Though my “History of Cavern Exploration in Devonshire” 
is now completed, so far as the time at my disposal will allow, 
and so far as the materials are at present ripe for the historian, 
I venture to ask your further indulgence for a few brief moments 
whilst passing from the region of fact to that of inference. 
That the Kent’s Hole men of the Hyznine period—to say 
nothing at present of their predecessors of the Breccia—belonged 
to the Pleistocene times of the biologist, is seen in the fact that 
they were contemporary with mammals peculiar to and characteristic 
of those times. This contemporaneity proves them to have be- 
longed to the Pal@olithic era of Britain and Western Europe 
generally, as defined by the archeologist ; and this is fully con- 
firmed by their unpolished tools of flint and chert. That they 
were prior to the deposition of even the oldest part of the peat 
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