ON THE EXPLOEATION OF KENT S CAVEBN, DEVONSHIRE. 



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spot had the advantages of being the lowest level reached in the previous 

 excavation, of ofifering many facilities for carrying on the work, and the 

 workmen would begin at once with the Breccia, or oldest known deposit, 

 in the Cavern— all those of less antiquity having been there already re- 

 moved. The work was begun on November 28, 1879, the workmen, as 

 in the first excavation, digging their way daily farther and farther into 



the Cavern. 



It having become known that only a very small sum remained in hand, 

 the following subscriptions from friends at a distance, as well as in the 

 neighbourhood, reached the Secretary from time to time : — 



Mr. Josiali Marples . 



„ W. Marples 



„ Mr. G. H. Morton 



„ C. G. Mott 



„ Mr. W. H. Picton 



„ Mr. D. Ratcliffe 



„ I. Eoberts (two donations) 



„ J. T. Robinson . 



„ J. Samuelson 



„ J. Tanser . 



„ Timmins 



„ I. C. Thompson . 



„ E. Vivian (Member of the 

 Cavern Committee) 



„ Mr. G. Whidborne . 

 Dr. G. F. A. Wilks . 

 A Member of Torquay Natural 

 History Society . 



£ 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 1 

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10 



5 



10 6 



10 



10 



10 



3 











10 



10 



10 



2 











10 



Total £51 10 



Mr. G. W. Baker . 



„ A. Benas . 



„ B. Benas . 

 Dr. Campbell Brown 

 Mr. I. I. Drysdale . 



„ H. Durander 

 Rev. \V. Earle 

 Mr. M. Guthrie 



„ I. W. Hayward . 



„ E. Hughes 



„ A. R. Hunt 

 Mrs. A. Hunt . 

 Miss Hunt 

 Mr. R. C. Johnson . 



„ Mr. W. Jones . 



„ W. Lavers 



„ J. E. Lee (Member of the 

 Cavern Committee) 



,, R. Lowndes 

 Captain Mackenzie . 

 Mr. Joseph Marples 



The Committee take this opportunity to thank all the donors, and to 

 express their sense of special obligation to Mr. Isaac Roberts, F.G.S., 

 not only for his handsome donations, but for kindly interesting his friends 

 in the work, as well as for receiving and transmitting their subscriptions. 



The workmen were directed to carry the second, that is the lower, 

 excavation to a depth of five feet below the bottom of the four-feet exca- 

 vation, making a total depth of nine feet below the bottom of the Granular 

 Stalagmitic Floor. The method of excavating employed from the first 

 was still continued, the deposit being taken out in ' foot-parallels ' and 

 ' foot-levels ' (See ' Report Brit. Ass.' 1865, pp. 19-20) ; a total length of 

 132 feet was excavated, in the first three of which a continuous limestone 

 floor was laid bare ; beyond that it ceased, the limestone walls, instead of 

 meeting actually, were separated by a longitudinal fissure varying from 

 six inches to four feet, and averaging 1-75 foot in the first forty-five feet, 

 but occasionally somewhat wider elsewhere. Throughout the greater part 

 of the excavation a limestone floor was practically, though not actually, 

 reached, the fisstire being too narrow for the men to work. In this fea- 

 ture, as well as in some others, the Long Arcade closely resembled the two 

 principal galleries of Windmill Hill Cavern, at Brixham, on the opposite 

 shore of Torbay (See ' Phil. Trans.' clxiii. 485 ; or ' Trans. Devon. Ass.' 



vi. 798). , , c 



The deposit, with the exception of one or two small ' pockets of 

 Cave-earth, was everywhere the well-known Breccia. Stones rather 

 1880. F 



