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shingly debris called ' screes,' and, in Mr. Tiddeman's 

 opinion, this Boulder-clay forms part of the ground- 

 moraine of a great glacier coming from the north, such 

 as that described in Chapter XXIV. 



' The bones in the caverns,' says Mr. Tiddeman, 

 ' appear to group themselves chiefly along two horizons, 

 which are separated from one another by a greater or less 

 thickness of cave-earth, laminated clay, and stalagmite.' 

 The organic remains found in these beds are arranged 

 by him as follows ; 



The general assemblage closely resembles that found 

 in 1821 by Dr. Buckland in the famous Kirkdale Cave 

 in the Vale of Pickering in Yorkshire, and such as is 

 also known in the Dream Cave, and others near Wirks- 

 worth in Derbyshire. In the Victoria Cave all the 

 bones in the lower bed are marked by the gnawing 

 of the teeth of Hysenas. One bone from this bed is 

 of special interest, a fragment which Mr. Busk identi- 

 fied as part of a human fibula. No one doubts the 

 existence of man along with the modern fauna of the 

 upper bed, which is later than the Boulder-clay. But 

 a man co-existent with a Grlacial, or probably a pre- 

 Grlacial fauna, is a very different matter, and, accord- 

 ingly, some eminent osteologists have lately declared 

 that though they cannot assert that the fragment is 

 not part of the bone of a man, on the other hand they 



