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but regard being had to the condition of the deposit in which they occur, thoy 

 arc certainly such as might have been looked for, and they present no diffi- 

 culty whatever. 



Notwithstanding the obvious disturbance of the Cave-earth, the same me- 

 thod of exploration has been followed here as elsewhere ; and the specimens 

 found in each " level " and "yard '' have been kept apart in separate boxes 

 as heretofore. 



Scarcely any branch of the Cavern has surpassed this Sally-Port in the 

 number of the fossils it has yielded, and in no part have finer or more per- 

 fect specimens been found. They are the remains of all the common Cave- 

 mammals, with a greater number of the teeth of the Mammoth than have 

 been met with by the Committee within an equal space elsewhere. The 

 bones are generally of less sjiecific gravity, softer, and more brittle than those 

 found in the Cave-earth in other branches of the Cavern — a fact perhaps ascri- 

 bable to the absence of a calcareous drip. Many of them are gnawed, some 

 have entirely escaped this ordeal, and a few have marks on their surfaces 

 apparently unlike those produced by teeth. Most of them on being cleaned 

 retain impressions of the brush used for that purpose. The surfaces of seve- 

 ral are more or less covered with rudely circular punctures of various sizes — a 

 fact observed occasionally in those found elsewhere, but much less frequently 

 than in these in this branch of the Cavern. Lumps of fiscal matter are by 

 no means rare. 



The flint and chert implements and flakes are ten in number, three of which 

 were met with on the surface, one in the first foot-level, three in the second, 

 two in the third, and one the position of which is somewhat uncertain. 



Four of them only need description. The first (No. 4155) is a splendid z^z^' 

 heart-shaped chert implement. It was found June 12,1869, lying on the ^f\ 

 surface of the Cave-earth, beneath an overhanging ledge of limestone which 

 it almost touched, on the west side of the Sally-Port. It was wrought from 

 a chert nodule apparently selected from the supracretaceous gravel of Milber 

 Down between Torquay and Newton Abbot. It is about 4^ inches long, 3 

 inches in greatest breadth, and 1| inch thick at 1| inch from its broad 

 end. The but-end only retains the original surface of the nodule. It is the 

 only implement of the kind found by the Committee, and none of those figured 

 by Mr. M'Enery at all resemble it. 



The second (No. 4259) is of fine-grained silvery grey flint. It is sjanme- 

 trlcally canoe-shaped, 3-6 inches long, 1-2 inch broad, and -4 inch in greatest , ;^, ^. 

 thickness. It is flat on one side, somewhat rounded on the other, worked to ' ' -" 

 an edge all round the margin, and considerably chipped on both surfaces. It 

 belongs to the same type as the implement (No. 3922) previoiisly described, I 



but is much less rounded on the outer surface. It was found on the Cave- - , 

 earth, July 5, 1869. ' ' 



The third (No. 4263) is formed of rather coarse white cherty flint. It is 

 flat on the inner surface, carinated on the outer, and is not highly finished. 

 It is about 4 inches long, 1-3 inch broad, -6 inch in greatest thickness, and 

 was found Jidy 6, 1869, 2 feet deep in the deposit. 



The fourth is strongly carinated on the outer surface ; the inner is very 

 concave longitudinally, and slightly convex transversely. It is 3-4 inches 

 long, 1-2 inch broad, and -5 inch where thickest. It is chiefly remarkable 

 from having a square tang at one end, -8 inch long and -6 inch broad, as if 

 for fastening into a haft. Its opposite end is rounded, it is fined off to an 

 edge all round, and it appears to have been used as a scraper. It was found 

 August 5, 1869, 4(1 feet from the entrance of the Sally-Port, in a small mass 



