Keport oisr Cave Examination in Hants County, IsT. S. — 

 By Walter Henry Prest, Bedford, N S. 



Kead liith November, 1911. 



Having been asked by the council of tbe N'. S. Institute of 

 Science to make some investigations into the anthropological 

 possibilities of the caves in ISTova Scotia, I submit the following 

 PS the result of a few days' work. A visit to three of the caves 

 of Hants County gave information that may be worth recording, 

 though it does not bear very strongly on the purpose of my 

 visit. These caves were: Miller's Creek Cave, Frenchman's 

 Cave, and Five-mile River Cave, all within easy reach of town 

 and railway. 



Miller s Creek Cave. — This cave is about 4^ miles north- 

 eastward of the town of Windsor, Hants County, and about 1:^ 

 miles north of the Midland railway. It is buried among steep 

 hills near the headwaters of Miller's Creek, which here becomes 

 only a dribble. A branch of the Miller's Creek road reaches 

 the home of a man by the name of Connors, just back of whose 

 house in the gulch in which is the cave. The original entrance 

 is now nearly blocked by fallen rock, and the visitor is obliged 

 to squeeze through a corkscrew-like hole in what was once the 

 roof. Securing a guide, a lantern, and tools for use if the 

 passage should be blocked, I entered an old quarry, at the end of 

 which I climbed an immense pile of debris at the mouth of 

 the cave. After sliding through the entrance backward, I 

 found myself in a passage which had apparently once been 

 about 30 feet wide and 15 feet high, but which is now choked 

 almost to the roof by fallen rock. Descending to the level of 

 the main cave the floor became more even and less littered with 

 rubbish, and the roof higher. Then suddenly the cave 

 expanded and a i3ond showed itself in the faint light of the 



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