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the skeleton \rere often huddled confusedly together; thus in No. 601,3, 

 found in the second foot-level in the southern compartment of the Alcove, 

 loth July, 1875, a canine tooth adheres to one side of the proximal end of a 

 tibia, and a piece of jaw to another side. Some of the specimens have 

 fretted surfaces, and appear to have been rolled by running water ; this is 

 notably the case with Nos. 6608 and 6615, found in the second and first foot- /SJh 

 levels, in the southern compartment of the Alcove, on 12th and 16th Jul)', 

 1875, respectively. Many of the bones were broken where they were finally 

 lodged, and the parts, with little or no displacement, reunited with Stalag- 

 mitic infiltration ; as, for example, Nos. -g-^Y-g- and u-gy-jr, found in the first 

 foot-level in the branch of the Cavern just named, 17th July, 1875. Others 

 appear to have been flattened and more or less crushed where they lay, of 

 which there is a striking example in the distal end of a left femur, No. 6530, -. ?•?? 

 found in the first foot-level in the Cave of Inscriptions, 34 feet from its 

 entrance, 12th January, 1875. Occasionally the same rock-like mass of 

 Breccia contains bones of very different colours ; thus No. 6603 is such a 

 mass, containing portions of two bones not half an inch apart, each acci- 

 dentally broken across ; and whilst one is of a creamy whiteness throughout, 

 the other is a very dark brown, approaching to black. It was found in the 

 second foot-level in the Alcove, 9th July, 1875. This specimen, by no means 

 unique, shows that contemporary bones lying side by side may be of very 

 different colours. 



Nor arc the remains met with in the Cave-earth void of instruction. Up to 

 the present time, wherever the Cave-earth has been met with, there also have 

 traces of the Hyaena been found, either in the form of parts of his skeleton, 

 or his coprolites, or bones scored with his teeth-marks, or jaws divested of 

 their lower borders, or long bones broken after his well-known and recog- 

 nizable fashion. But though everywhere preseut in greater or lesser 

 numbers, these traces became less and less plentiful with increased distance 

 from the external entrances to the Cavern, and were very " few and far 

 between " in the Cave of Inscriptions — the Chamber most remote from the 

 entrances. Whilst the remains of the IIya;na were thus met with wherever 

 the Cave-earth occurred, they were in the interior accompanied by those of 

 very few of his contemporaries. Thus, whilst the Chambers adjacent to the 

 entrances contained teeth and bones of Horse, Bhinoceros, Deer (several 

 species), Bear, Fox, Elephant, Ox, Lion, Wolf, and Hare, as well as Hyfena 

 (the latter being far the most prevalent), there have been found during the 

 last twelve months in the Cave-earth remains of the Hya;na alone. Nor is 

 it without interest to note the branches of the Cavern in which remains of 

 the different forms just enumerated were last detected, so far as is at present 

 known, on the way to the Cave of Inscriptions. The Hare has not been 

 found anywhere in the Western Division of the Cavern — that of which the 

 Cave of Inscriptions is the innermost Chamber ; the Badger, Wolf, and Ox 

 were represented in the " Charcoal Cave," but not beyond it ; and relics of 

 Horse, Bhinoceros, Deer, Bear, Fox, Elephant, and Lion have not appeared 

 beyond the Long Arcade. 



Finally, no traces of Muclimroilus have been met with since the incisor 

 tooth found 29th July, 1872, and described in the Eighth Beport (1872), 

 presented at Brighton. 



