ox THE CAVES IN THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



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and bats' bones were also found. The rock in which they were imbedded 

 was tough and hard, apparently a mud mixed with bits of chalky limestone 

 and much oxide of iron in the form of veins and nodules. This portion of 

 the floor was entirely in contact with the cliff" wall. The rest of the floor 

 was more muddy and softer. A very considerable portion of the original 

 floor had been denuded away by water. What appeared to have been 

 other bones lay scattered all through this muddy deposit, but they were so 

 much altered that they were quite indeterminable. Iron had been 



Fig. 2. — Diagram of Section of Fallen Cave (overturned). 



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deposited on them, and the bones themselves eventually corroded away, 

 their casts tilled with crystals of carbonate of lime, and that, again, some- 

 times apparently replaced by iron oxide. 



It appears that this cavern had fallen from the cliff, and the rock 

 containing it was lying on its side. In one direction a portion of the 

 original cavern could be seen, but it was inaccessible, being partly filled 

 with a soft mud which it was impossible to walk on. The original form 

 and position of the cave were indeterminable, owing to the crushing in of 

 the sides and inversion of the whole mass. That it must have been of 

 considerable antiquity there could be little doubt. 



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