318 Nolice-and Review of the Reliquiae Diluvianae. 
byshire, in which was found nearly the entire skeleton of 
arhinoceros. This the author supposes was drifted into 
the cave along with the diluvial detritus; an open chasm 
having been accidentally discovered, in exploring the cay- 
ern, in a spot where it was not suspected to exist. Seve- 
ral other instances of caves with similar remains are men- 
tioned, the circumstances of which indicate that the bones 
were either drifted into them at the deluge, or that the 
animals had fallen into them at an anterior period. In 
the same vicinity occurs the suite of caverns called the 
Foxholes. containing diluvial sediment ; and the mouths 
of these cavities open at such a height in the hill, that it is 
impossible to refer the introduction of the mud, to the 
flood of any rivulet now existing in the vicinity. In seve- 
ral of the caves in Germany, also, in which exist similar 
phenomena, ‘the present entrance is often a hole in an 
absolutely vertical precipice, which it is impossible to 
approach, except by ropes or ladders.” These facts sup~ 
ply an important Jink in the Kirkdale evidence; since in 
that cave, it 1s not demonstrably certain that the coating 
of mud might not have been derived from some former 
partial inundation. 
A series of caverns were examined in the vicinity of 
Plymouth, in England, containing the bones of the same 
animals as that at Kirkdale. From a thorough examina- 
tion of ali the circumstances of their occurrence, Mr. Buck- 
land concludes “that the animals had fallen during the 
antediluvian period into the open fissures, and there per- 
ishing, had remained undisturbed in the spot on which 
they died, till drifted forwards by the diluvian waters to 
their present place in the lowest vaultings with which 
these fissures had communication.” 
The Paviland cave is chiefly remarkable for the remains 
of a female human skeleton found in it. Along with this, 
lay the bones of various antediluvian animals, such as the 
elephant, rhinoceros, hyena, &c. The various circum- 
stances of the case, however, will not warrant us in sup- 
posing the human remains found here, to have been ante- 
diluvian: but they rather lead us to suppose this woman 
was buried here, with numerous trinkets, about the time 
of the invasion of England by the Romans ; while the other 
organic relics may be referred to the deluge. 
