ON KDNt's CAVBRNj DEVONSHIRE. 197 



4. Bottles of various kinds — wiue, lemoBade, and ginger-beer; some 

 entire, but most of them broken. 



5. Wine and other glasses, all broken. 



6. Fragments of earthenware and china cups. 



7. Numerous sticks and branches of trees ; many of tliem charred. 



8. A tin sconce. 



9. A small iron claw-hammer. 



10. The handle of a hammer. 



11. A clasp-knife, shut. 



12. A two-foot rule, closed. 



13. The i^late of a child's iron spado. 



14. A wooden ink-bottle (?). 



15. An oystcr-sheU, 



16. A pecten-shcU, apparently used to hold some kind of paint. 



17. A wooden spatula. 



18. A wooden tally, having the initials W. E. cut on it. 



19. A well-squared block of wood, above 5 inches long and broad, and 

 2| inches thick. 



20. A wooden cover of a salting-pan, or of a small furnace. 



21. A portion of a stout iron chain, 44 inches long, consisting of twenty- 

 four links and a swivel, and having a padlock at one end. 



22. Numerous broken stalactites, pap-like stalagmites, pebbles, and blocks 

 of limestone. 



Many of the objects (such as the candles, candlesticks, bottles, glasses, &:c.) 

 present no difficulty. They were, no doubt, thrown into the Lake in frolic, 

 or bj'' those Avho did not care to carry them further after thej^ had ceased to 

 he of service. Others (such as the knife, foot-rnlo, hammer, &c.) were probably 

 dropped unintentionally ; and the cover of a salting-pan or furnace, as well as 

 the block of wood, may have been used to float candles by the curious. 

 It does not seem easj', however, to account for the chain. It is not an ob- 

 ject likely to have been useful during visits to the Cavern, nor is it such as 

 people commonly carry about with them. The pebbles were thrown in, 

 perhaps, in order to the formation of an opinion respecting the depth of the 

 Avater ; and the larger stones probably for the same purpose, or perhaps to 

 be used as stepping-stones by those who desired to traverse the Lake. 



It is perhaps worthy of remark that there are no medieval or ancient 

 objects ; nor any such as might have been east in as votive oiFcriugs by 

 people who regarded the water with religious veneration. 



Mr. M'Enery seems to have believed that there were probably objects of 

 interest in the Lake ; he says, "We ought to rake it oat" *. 



In the underlying Cave-earth in the Lake there were found a fragment of 

 an elephant's jaw containing a perfect molar, the finest specimen of the kind 

 with which the labours of the Committee have been rewarded ; a molar of a 

 horse ; several more or less perfect bones, including a humerus, an ulna, a 

 scapula, and radii ; and a fragment of a large horn-core. 



That the Lake was supplied with water by infiltrations through the roof 

 exclusively there is now no manner of doubt, and that some portion of it 

 oozed away through the Stalagmite composing the bottom of the basin is no 

 less certain. The mechanism, however, which rendered it impossible for the 

 Lake to be filled to overflowing was, on cxamiuatiou, very patent and interest- 

 ing. In its left wall, which is almost naked hmestonc, there is a natural tunnel 



* See Trans. Devon. Assoc, vol. iii. p. 242 (1869). 



