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the blocks of limestone lying confusedly in the south-eastern portion of the 

 Cave. In some of these, all of them being sealed up with Stalagmite, shells 

 of the common Pecten (Pecten maximus, Linn.) were found, amounting to a 

 total of twenty-five. Most of them were large shells, and some were thickly 

 incrusted with calcareous matter containing, in one or two cases, traces of 

 charred wood. In one instance two, and in another five, shells were found 

 fitted neatly into one another, and cemented together with carbonate of lime, 

 thus leaving no doubt that man had not only packed them, but placed them 

 where they were found. The fact that some of them were '« dead shells," 

 having Serpute attached to their inner surfaces, indicates, of course, that they 

 were not in all cases taken to the Cavern because they contained an article of 

 food, but probably sometimes, at least, as domestic vessels. 



The undisturbed Cave-earth in this branch of the Cavern yielded a con- 

 siderable number of the remains of the ordinary Cave-mammals, including 

 nearly sixty shells, which may be distributed as in the following Table : — 



Table I. — Showing how many per cent, of the Teeth found in Cave-earth 

 in the Wolf's Cave belonged to the different kinds of Mammals. 



Elephant 2-5 per cent. 



Hyaena 44-5 per cent. 



Horse 25 „ 



Rhinoceros 15 „ 



Megaceros 3 „ 



Bear . 

 Deer. 



3 



2-5 



Lion 1 



Wolf 1 



Ox 1 



Rabbit "5 „ 



Fox only 1 tooth. 



It wiU be remembered that the Cave-earth is excavated in vertical shoes 

 or " Parallels " extending generally from wall to wall of the branch of the 

 Cavern under exploration, to a depth of 4 feet and a horizontal thickness of 

 1 foot ; that each Parallel is taken out in 4 successive " Levels," each a foot 

 in vertical depth ; and each Level in " Yards," or masses 3 feet in length. 



From what has been already stated, it is obvious that in the Wolf's Cave 

 there were no continuous first or second Foot-levels intact, and that even the 

 third and fourth were not everywhere met with. Confining attention to the 

 twenty-one instances of each of the two latter which did occur in the same 

 Parallels, the following Table will show the distribution of the teeth of the 

 various kinds of Mammals in them : — 



Table II.— Showing the distribution of the Teeth of the different kinds of 

 Mammals in the third and fourth Foot-levels of twenty-one Parallels of 

 Cave-earth in the Wolf's Cave. 



