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the town to increase rapidly, and has given 'rise to a considerable local trade, its 

 -small port now being frequently crowded with shipping. Kent's Hole, near 

 Torquay, and a similar cavern near Brixham, are remarkable on account of the 

 stone implements, human remains, and bones of animals which have been found in 

 them. The fossil fauna of these underground galleries embraces forty-six or forty- 

 seven species of animals, including the bear, otter, fox, wolf, hyena, panther, stag, 

 ox, pig, rhinoceros, and elephant, and, amongst the smaller animals, the mouse.* 

 Flint implements, which first attracted the notice of men of science, were discovered 

 between 1825 and 1841. Kent's Hole has been known for centuries, and, accord- 



Fig. 49. — Eddystoxe Eocks. 

 From an Admiralty Chart. 



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ing to local tradition, it owes its name to a falcon which flew into it and reappeared 

 in the county of Kent. 



St. Mary Church, a couple of miles to the north of Torquay, has marble and 

 terra-cotta works. Teirjnmouth has marble works, and exports potter's clay and 

 cider, besides granite from the lleytor quarries. Newton Abbot and Woolboroiigh 

 lie 5 miles inland, whilst Bovey Tracey, known to geologists for its lignite coal 

 beds and diggings of potter's clay, occupies the centre of a valley which joins that 

 of the Teign on the east. Dau-Uah, a short distance to the north of Teignmouth, 



* MacEncry ; Pengelly, " Kent's Hole ; " Boyd Dawkins [Journal of the Geological Society, vol. xxv. 

 1869"). 



