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It is built on an artificial mound, of which there # are two others. 

 The structure described is 90 feet long, 14 feet wide at its western 

 end, 18 feet in the center, and at the beginning of the vestibule 

 about 7 feet wide, and about 10 feet high. The five covering 

 stones weigh 450 tons. From the western end to the entrance of 

 the vestibule it is 59 feet, and the vestibule is 31 feet in length. 



Immediately in front of this temple is a mountain, called La 

 Peiia de los Enamorados, presenting at its summit a perfect figure 

 of the human profile. As all other prehistoric caves of which he 

 had any knowledge faced directly east, his theory of this was. that 

 it was not intended as a burial mound, as some supposed, but as a 

 temple of worship, the officiating priest having La Peiia de los 

 Enamorados directly in his view. 



The stone that covers the western end was estimated to weigh 

 160 tons. The nearest point from which these huge stones could 

 have been obtained was 18 miles distant, with two rivers inter- 

 vening. 



The speaker also described a plain in the vicinity of Antequera, 

 which is strewn with oyster shells. This plain or basin is about 

 1,900 hundred feet above the level of the sea. It would seem to 

 have once been inhabited by prehistoric man who lived principally 

 upon oysters and left their shells scattered over the ground. 



At the close of his remarks Major Hancock presented the Society 

 with a copy of a work descriptive of these and other archaeologi- 

 cal remains in the south of Spain entitled Antiqiiedades Prehistori- 

 cas de Andalucia, etc. , Por Don Manuel de Gongora y Martinez. 

 Madrid, 1868; 4to., pp. 158, with 149 figures, plates, and map ; also 

 two charts illustrating the profile and form of a dolmen described 

 by Major Hancock, in which were found numerous human and 

 other remains. These were accompanied by two worked flints from 

 the cave and portion of a fossil oyster shell found on the surface 

 of the plain, the latter appearing to consist chiefly of such shells, 

 and having a height of 1,900 feet above sea level. 



