ON KENT’S CAVERN, DEVONSHIRE. 7 
The Gallery extends about 20 feet in a south-easterly direction, varies 
from 2°5 to 7 feet in width, and, when measured from the bottom of the ex- 
cavation made by the Committee, from 7:5 feet at the entrance to less than 
6 feet in height within. The roof and walls have the appearance of an old 
watercourse, and are worn smooth, with but little of that fretted character so 
prevalent in some other branches of the Cavern. Near the mouth there are 
four circular holes in the right wall, about 6 inches in diameter, which look 
like the mouths of “ flues,’ but are found to extend not more than a foot 
into the rock and to run into one another. A Floor of the Granular Sta- 
lagmite, never exceeding 10 inches in thickness, extended from the mouth to 
16 feet within it, where it “thinned out.” Beneath it there were, in certain 
places, chiefly adjacent to the left wall, remnants of the Crystalline Stalag- 
mite in situ; but the greater part of this older Floor had, as in many other 
parts of the Cavern, been broken up by some natural agency. 
With rare exceptions, a thin layer of Cave-earth lay at once on the Breccia 
without any Stalagmite between them. In the Breccia itself, however, 
there were numerous fragments or blocks of Stalagmite which cannot but be 
regarded as remnants of a Floor still older than the Crystalline Stalagmite 
found on the Breccia. Similar indications of this Floor, of what may be 
called the third order of antiquity, have frequently been met with elsewhere 
in the Cavern, and mentioned in previous Reports*. The Breccia was ex- 
tremely hard, and had to be split out with wedges to the depth of 2 feet. 
This, added to the contracted dimensions of the Gallery, rendered the work 
probably the most severe that has been experienced in the Cavern from the 
commencement. 
Though the human bones found by Mr. Underhay on and in the Granular 
Stalagmite, as already mentioned, did not appear, from their aspect or specific 
grayity, to be of an antiquity equal to that of the Cave-hyzna and his con- 
temporaries, the Superintendents, in the hope of finding some further traces 
of the skeleton, very carefully watched the progress of the work; and on 
reaching Mr. Underhay’s very limited diggings, they met with a series of bones 
also on and in the Stalagmite, some of which were certainly human, whilst 
others were as clearly infra-human. The whole were at once forwarded to 
Mr. George Busk, F.R.S. &e., a member of the Committee, who has been so 
good as to forward the following reporton them. They were all numbered 
east 6xeet? &e., ages ga aos &e., and so on. 
Me. Busx’s Report. 
“TT. Human. 
No. 
6261. 1. Lower end of left humerus. 
6285. 1. Right astragalus (small size). 
. Fragment of rib. 
Do. do. 
. Second phalanx of fourth finger. 
. Fragment of proximal epiphysis of humerus. 
. Fragment of eleventh or twelfth rib. 
. Fragment of cervical vertebra. 
. Fragment of rib? 
. Navicular bone. 
a 
* See Report Brit. Assoc. 1868, p. 57. 
