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two places, the walls being approximately perpendicular down to the level of 

 the trench, which is poorly developed. A secondary stalagmite floor was 

 formed where the wreck of the upper had fallen on a sand-bed; under this 

 was a hollow where the sand had been partially washed away, and there, in 

 and under the second floor of Stalagmite, were many bones. Y.//. a leg bone of 

 Mammoth and "there, some of which adhered to the bottom of the stalagmite. 

 We found also the remarkable feature (met with in the Third Gallery) of the 

 secondary floor of broken stalagmite extending under the unbroken upper 

 stalagmite. The Band-bed Btretched northward, and was rich in animal 

 remains even where the roof became quite broken up and on a high level. 

 There the •■•■ split and crushed by pressure, and an opening exists 



int" the 



l'n in and Sixth Gallebibs, which are narrow, dark, and nearly empty, 

 but a Mammoth's bone was found in the fifth, and bits ..i bone in the sixth. 



From the central portion of the Elephant Hall 1 11 1 one creeps through a 

 shallow | nt" the Horsb Gallery (12a t" 14 . On entering a very 



Btriking view is obtained "f its wide tunnel and upper stalagmite which forms 

 a bridge or ceiling beneath the apex. Smaller galleries run on each side, one 

 of which has a larg s-opening int" tin- Horee Gallery. The sand in the 



latter was nearly barren of bones. Farther on towards 14) the whole side 

 of tin- trench has Blipped out int" the centre, and this mass of rock we called 



the 11 



the few east and west passages of any size leads into the 

 Blot or Faibv Haj i. < !■'■>. named from its broad, flattish ceiling of blue lime- 

 stone with numb tites. The western wall shows hollowing 

 like the tunnel. At the north end a wide tunnel gallery leads some 

 distance until it is blocked up to the roof with pale sand which fills most of the 

 hall to a depth of several feet A- the _ Uery points towards orifices in 

 Hurley'.- part of the quarry outeidi - that this profusion of pale, barren 

 sand wat into the hall from the north as it was into the Goat House 

 a little further east, and int" the central part of the Elephant Hall. 



3 era] smaller galleries branch out of the Blue Hall northwards. We 



••■ on the west side. Tic- Bhelf was found about 7 feet below the 



f the sand, and the trench in the rock was 12 or 14 inches wide. It 



contained Bome broken-up stalagmite, but this excavation yielded only one or 



two bones. In tl hall beneath the great bed of pale sand we 



me on a broken-u] gmite floor, and under that was a darker sand 



containing Hears' and I 



A nit the middle of the west side irthfall on top of which is an 



orifice that opens int" a series of .small galleries and swallow-holes. Furthei 



