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quite extraordinary. Remains of as many as seven individuals were 
found at divers levels on the face of the bank, which is about 80 feet 
in perpendicular height, and about 100 feet in its greatest breadth. 
Several shells (all, I think, belong to Helix) were also found. I 
have sent them to Mr. Woodward. From the manner in which this 
gap is filled up with red earth and rounded stones, there is every 
likelihood that all had been washed from higher lands ; the bones are 
very fragmentary. ‘There was no trace of man here; but a stone 
implement was discovered forty years ago ina fissure filled with clay, 
and a very clear description of the discovery has been preserved. 
‘JT think I mentioned in a former letter that I had discovered a 
cave on the coast of Malta containing abundant remains of the fossil 
Myoxus I had formerly described from another cavern in the neigh- 
bourhood, containing also Hippopotamus and Land-shells. The vein- 
cavern is situated on the same terrace-cliff with the last-named, and 
is firmly packed with red earth and stalactite, so that it requires a 
great amount of labour to clear it out. Ihave penetrated only about 
6 feet inwards, making a section 14 feet high and about 8 feet square. 
I give a rough sketch of the deposits (fig. 2). I wish very much 
1. Stalactite. 2. Red loam and stalactite. 
3. Remains of Myoxrus Melitensis, Birds’ Bones; with Helix, Clausilia, and Bulimus (all 
existing shells). 
4, Red loam and stalactite. 5, Yellow loam. 
6. Red loam, with a few nodules of stalactite, and abundant remains of a Rodent (un- 
determined). 
7. White stalagmite, containing a tooth of Carcharias megalodon and Fish-bones. 
a a. Lower Limestone of Malta. 6, Undisturbed portion of the cave. 
to clear the whole out, as I feel confident that there will be found 
some interesting remains; but the expense is more than I can afford. 
Possibly the cavern runs many yards inwards; and nothing could 
be more suitable for the preservation of organic remains; and the 
fact of finding Fish-bones and the serrated tooth of the great Shark 
(common in the Caleareous Sandstone) on the floor would point to 
something like human occupation. If I could obtain a grant from 
any of the Museums or Societies, the cavern might be cleared out, 
also the other mentioned gap, where I have found so many remains 
